| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: huger than his companions, raised his face to the heavens and
in a voice that sent the cold shudders through the girl's slight
frame answered the far-off cry.
Once again the beaters took up their drumming and the slow
dance went on. There was a certain fascination in the savage
ceremony that held the girl spellbound, and as there seemed
little likelihood of her being discovered, she felt that she
might
as well remain the balance of the night in her tree and r‚sum‚
her flight by the comparatively greater safety of daylight.
Assuring herself that her packet of papers was safe she
Tarzan the Untamed |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: eyes, "who will help you to remove the traces of this fantasy which
the law would not overlook?"
"I have her mother," replied the Marquise, designating the Georgian,
to whom she made a sign to remain.
"We shall meet again," said Henri, who was thinking anxiously of his
friends and felt that it was time to leave.
"No, brother," she said, "we shall not meet again. I am going back to
Spain to enter the Convent of /los Dolores/."
"You are too young yet, too lovely," said Henri, taking her in his
arms and giving her a kiss.
"Good-bye," she said; "there is no consolation when you have lost that
The Girl with the Golden Eyes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Who see their helmsman dumbstruck in the storm.
[Enter Corinthian MESSENGER.]
MESSENGER
My masters, tell me where the palace is
Of Oedipus; or better, where's the king.
CHORUS
Here is the palace and he bides within;
This is his queen the mother of his children.
MESSENGER
All happiness attend her and the house,
Blessed is her husband and her marriage-bed.
Oedipus Trilogy |
