| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: Than all the gross realities of life." ANONYMOUS.
My Aunt Margaret was one of that respected sisterhood upon whom
devolve all the trouble and solicitude incidental to the
possession of children, excepting only that which attends their
entrance into the world. We were a large family, of very
different dispositions and constitutions. Some were dull and
peevish--they were sent to Aunt Margaret to be amused; some were
rude, romping, and boisterous--they were sent to Aunt Margaret to
be kept quiet, or rather that their noise might be removed out of
hearing; those who were indisposed were sent with the prospect of
being nursed; those who were stubborn, with the hope of their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And so he decided before the night was spent to put him-
self as far from his family as possible, lest some future
attempt upon his life might endanger theirs. Then, too,
righteous anger and a desire for revenge prompted his de-
cision. He would run Maenck to earth and have an ac-
counting with him. It was evident that his life would not
be worth a farthing so long as the fellow was at liberty.
Before dawn he swore the gardener and chauffeur to si-
lence, and at breakfast announced his intention of leaving
that day for New York to seek a commission as correspondent
with an old classmate, who owned the New York Evening
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: Nelson's greatness was very human. It had a moral basis; it needed
to feel itself surrounded by the warm devotion of a band of
brothers. He was vain and tender. The love and admiration which
the navy gave him so unreservedly soothed the restlessness of his
professional pride. He trusted them as much as they trusted him.
He was a seaman of seamen. Sir T. B. Martin states that he never
conversed with any officer who had served under Nelson "without
hearing the heartiest expressions of attachment to his person and
admiration of his frank and conciliatory manner to his
subordinates." And Sir Robert Stopford, who commanded one of the
ships with which Nelson chased to the West Indies a fleet nearly
The Mirror of the Sea |
