| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: heaven. Thank God, they cannot deprive us of that!"
But at last came the Congress of 1889.
The Justice and His Accuser
AN eminent Justice of the Supreme Court of Patagascar was accused
of having obtained his appointment by fraud.
"You wander," he said to the Accuser; "it is of little importance
how I obtained my power; it is only important how I have used it."
"I confess," said the Accuser, "that in comparison with the
rascally way in which you have conducted yourself on the Bench, the
rascally way in which you got there does seem rather a trifle."
The Highwayman and the Traveller
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to one side behind a bush. The moment that the savage
beast saw Juag he charged him. Juag ran straight away,
that the bull might be lured past my hiding-place. On
he came--tons of mighty bestial strength and rage.
Dian had slipped behind me. She, too, could fight a
thag should emergency require. Ah, such a girl! A
rightful empress of a stone age by every standard which
two worlds might bring to measure her!
Crashing down toward us came the bull thag, bel-
lowing and snorting, with the power of a hundred
outer-earthly bulls. When he was opposite me I sprang
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: The velvet is too splendid! and the braiding! and the embroidery! One
knows not where to begin.
Egmont. There, look thy fill.
Clara. And the Golden Fleece! You told me its history, and said it is the
symbol of everything great and precious, of everything that can be merited
and won by diligence and toil. It is very precious--I may liken it to thy
love;--even so I wear it next my heart;--and then--
Egmont. What wilt thou say?
Clara. And then again it is not like.
Egmont. How so?
Egmont |
