| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give
and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Presently we found a rift in the cliff which had been widened
and extended by the action of the water draining through it
from the plateau above. It gave us a rather rough climb
to the summit, but finally we stood upon the level mesa
which stretched back for several miles to the mountain range.
Behind us lay the broad inland sea, curving upward in the
horizonless distance to merge into the blue of the sky,
so that for all the world it looked as though the sea
lapped back to arch completely over us and disappear beyond
the distant mountains at our backs--the weird and uncanny
aspect of the seascapes of Pellucidar balk description.
At the Earth's Core |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Norman of Torn because of the horror from which he
has rescued me."
He took the little fingers in his mailed hand, and
bending upon one knee raised them to his lips.
"To no other--woman, man, king, God, or devil--
has Norman of Torn bent the knee. If ever you need
him, My Lady Bertrade, remember that his services
are yours for the asking."
And turning he mounted and rode in silence from
the courtyard of the castle of Leicester. Without a back-
ward glance, and with his five hundred men at his back,
The Outlaw of Torn |
