| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of
the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining
the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as
special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which
lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they
seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer
that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a
distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit
progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity; for the manner in which all
organic beings are grouped, shows that the greater number of species of
each genus, and all the species of many genera, have left no descendants,
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: "Wendy, sing the kind of house you would like to have."
Immediately, without opening her eyes, Wendy began to sing:
"I wish I had a pretty house,
The littlest ever seen,
With funny little red walls
And roof of mossy green."
They gurgled with joy at this, for by the greatest good luck
the branches they had brought were sticky with red sap, and all
the ground was carpeted with moss. As they rattled up the little
house they broke into song themselves:
"We've built the little walls and roof
Peter Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: argued that she was accustomed to being the kindly butt of their
exuberance. The third turned to follow his fellows, hesitated,
caught my lady's eye, and rushed back to his new-found friend.
That's the one for me," said I. "Give me good judgment. I shall
call him Paris."
"Appropriately. Off with the old love and on with the new. I'm
sure he's faithless, and I expect the bulldog's been awfully kind
to him, haven't you, dear?" She patted the snuffling beauty.
"Besides, I gave him the glad eye, which wasn't fair."
"I'll bet that's how Venus got the apple, if the truth were
known. Any way, I'm going to choose him for choosing you. You
The Brother of Daphne |
