| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I," he started again, and then there came an interruption
at the door.
"A messenger, your majesty," announced the doorman,
"who says that he must have audience at once upon a mat-
ter of life and death to the king."
"We will see him in the ante-chamber," replied Barney,
moving toward the door. "Await us here, Prince Ludwig."
A moment later he re-entered the apartment. There was
an expression of renewed hope upon his face.
"As we were about to remark, my dear prince," he said,
"I swear that the royal blood of the Rubinroths flows in my
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: Then we went into the laboratory and put an end to all we found living
there.
XIX. MONTGOMERY'S "BANK HOLIDAY."
WHEN this was accomplished, and we had washed and eaten,
Montgomery and I went into my little room and seriously discussed
our position for the first time. It was then near midnight.
He was almost sober, but greatly disturbed in his mind.
He had been strangely under the influence of Moreau's personality:
I do not think it had ever occurred to him that Moreau could die.
This disaster was the sudden collapse of the habits that had become part of
his nature in the ten or more monotonous years he had spent on the island.
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: against it.
The crime in question was fixed for Wednesday or Thursday-so
much I knew. But no more. There was the rub. I really could
not toil up to Town two days running.
"Let's see," I said carelessly," the fete's on- er- Wednesday,
or Thursday, is it?"
"Which day are you going up to Town?" said Daphne. I changed
my ground.
"The Bananas are all right," I said, lighting a cigarette.
"They only ate a missionary the other day," said my sister.
"That's bad," said I musingly. "To any nation the consumption
The Brother of Daphne |
