| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: one in the church--and was moving down the aisle toward
the rail, her uplifted face chalk-like in its whiteness,
and her eyes wide-open, looking straight ahead.
The young pastor could scarcely credit his sight.
He thrust aside his hand, and bent forward, only to see
his wife sink upon her knees among the rest, and to hear
this notable accession to the "mourners" hailed by a
tumult of approving shouts. Then, remembering himself,
he drew back and put up his hand, shutting out the strange
scene altogether. To see nothing at all was a relief,
and under cover he closed his eyes, and bit his teeth together.
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The girl looked at him questioningly. His very presence
had seemed to proclaim a guilty knowledge of her abduction.
How else might he have known the destination of the flier
that brought her!
"Who should know better than the Prince of Helium?"
she asked in return. "Did he not come hither of his own
free will?"
"From Aaanthor I came voluntarily upon the trail of
the green man who had stolen you, Thuvia," he replied;
"but from the time I left Helium until I awoke above
Aaanthor I thought myself bound for Ptarth.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: plano litore naves constituit.
At barbari, consilio Romanorum cognito praemisso equitatu et
essedariis, quo plerumque genere in proeliis uti consuerunt, reliquis
copiis subsecuti nostros navibus egredi prohibebant. Erat ob has causas
summa difficultas, quod naves propter magnitudinem nisi in alto constitui
non poterant, militibus autem, ignotis locis, impeditis manibus, magno et
gravi onere armorum oppressis simul et de navibus desiliendum et in
auctibus consistendum et cum hostibus erat pugnandum, cum illi aut ex
arido aut paulum in aquam progressi omnibus membris expeditis, notissimis
locis, audacter tela coicerent et equos insuefactos incitarent. Quibus
rebus nostri perterriti atque huius omnino generis pugnae imperiti, non
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