| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: beginning of their conversation, so she smiled and said, `If your
Majesty will only tell me the right way to begin, I'll do it as
well as I can.'
`But I don't want it done at all!' groaned the poor Queen.
`I've been a-dressing myself for the last two hours.'
It would have been all the better, as it seemed to Alice, if
she had got some one else to dress her, she was so dreadfully
untidy. `Every single thing's crooked,' Alice thought to
herself, `and she's all over pins!--may I put your shawl
straight for you?' she added aloud.
`I don't know what's the matter with it!' the Queen said, in a
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: alienate anything from your neighbor, even though you could do so with
honor in the eyes of the world, so that no one could accuse or blame
you as though you had obtained it wrongfully.
For we are so inclined by nature that no one desires to see another
have as much as himself, and each one acquires as much as he can; the
other may fare as best he can. And yet we pretend to be godly, know how
to adorn ourselves most finely and conceal our rascality, resort to and
invent adroit devices and deceitful artifices (such as now are daily
most ingeniously contrived) as though they were derived from the law
codes; yea, we even dare impertinently to refer to it, and boast of it,
and will not have it called rascality, but shrewdness and caution. In
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan's knife on the present occasion but barely offset the
gleaming fangs of Terkoz, and what little advantage the ape
had over the man in brute strength was almost balanced by
the latter's wonderful quickness and agility.
In the sum total of their points, however, the anthropoid
had a shade the better of the battle, and had there been no
other personal attribute to influence the final outcome,
Tarzan of the Apes, the young Lord Greystoke, would have died
as he had lived--an unknown savage beast in equatorial Africa.
But there was that which had raised him far above his fellows
of the jungle--that little spark which spells the whole
Tarzan of the Apes |
