| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: She threw the reins to the man and turned to Innes with a smile of
relief. 'I would much rather do a walk. Why--you want me to come
too, don't you?'
His face was all one negative, and under the unexpectedness of it
and the amazement of it her questioning eyes slowly filled with
sudden, uncontrollable tears, so that she had to lower them, and
look steadily at the hoof-marks in the road while she waited for his
answer.
'You know how I feel about seeing you--how glad I always am,' he
stammered. 'But there are reasons--'
'Reasons?' she repeated, half audibly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: Botheration! If after this you give him anything besides the tisane of
couch-grass, I will never set foot in here again, and you can look
where you like for another doctor."
"But, dear M. Benassis, my old man was starving, and when he had eaten
nothing for a whole fortnight----"
"Oh, yes, yes. Now will you listen to me. If you let your husband eat
a single mouthful of bread before I give him leave to take solid food,
you will kill him, do you hear?"
"He shall not have anything, sir. Is he any better?" she asked,
following the doctor to the door.
"Why, no. You have made him worse by feeding him. Shall I never get it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bottom beyond the city.
All that night and the following day and the second
night they rode toward the north-east. No indication of
pursuit developed, and at dawn of the second day Carthoris
saw in the distance the waving ribbon of great trees
that marked one of the long Barsoomian water-ways.
Immediately they abandoned their thoats and approached
the cultivated district on foot. Carthoris also
discarded the metal from his harness, or such of it as
might serve to identify him as a Heliumite, or of royal
blood, for he did not know to what nation belonged this
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
