| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: could distinguish a word spoken by the cowboys. They were
unconcernedly cooking and eating. She marked the absence of
Stewart, and mentioned it to Castleton. Silently Castleton
pointed almost straight down, and there in the gloom stood
Stewart, with the two stag-hounds at his feet.
Presently Nick Steele silenced the camp-fire circle by raising a
warning hand. The cowboys bent their heads, listening. Madeline
listened with all her might. She heard one of the hounds whine,
then the faint beat of horse's hoofs. Nick spoke again and turned
to his supper, and the other men seemed to slacken in attention.
The beat of hoofs grew louder, entered the grove, then the circle
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: carry him, but the emus distanced him with ease, so prodigious was their
speed.
As to the traces left by the convicts, a few more were discovered. Some
footprints found near an apparently recently extinguished fire were
attentively examined by the settlers. By measuring them one after the
other, according to their length and breadth, the marks of five men's feet
were easily distinguished. The five convicts had evidently camped on this
spot; but,--and this was the object of so minute an examination,--a sixth
footprint could not be discovered, which in that case would have been that
of Ayrton.
"Ayrton was not with them!" said Herbert.
The Mysterious Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: To revel in the entrails of my lambs.
But that stiff use of grief makes wild grief tame,
My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys
Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes;
And I, in such a desp'rate bay of death,
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,
Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.
KING RICHARD. Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise
And dangerous success of bloody wars,
As I intend more good to you and yours
Than ever you or yours by me were harm'd!
Richard III |
