| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: somebody: 'Gentlemen, the Regiment!' The
preachers drink, the bishops drink--"
Again the guide touched the head of the young
Tsar, who again lost consciousness. This time he
found himself in a peasant's cottage. The peas-
ant--a man of forty, with red face and blood-
shot eyes--was furiously striking the face of an
old man, who tried in vain to protect himself from
the blows. The younger peasant seized the beard
of the old man and held it fast.
"For shame! To strike your father--!"
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: times, almost as if she recognized him, and then,
edging deliberately towards him, touched his hand
with her arm in a scarcely accidental manner, and
made it plain by a look as ancient as Chaldea that he
had found favour in her eyes. And then a lank, grey-
bearded man, perspiring copiously in a noble passion
of self-help, blind to all earthly things save that glaring,
bait, thrust between them in a cataclysmal rush towards
that alluring " x 5 pr. G."
"I want to get out of this," said Graham to Asano.
"This is not what I came to see. Show me the
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: Part III
32 A Horse Fair
No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have
nothing to lose; at any rate, there is plenty to see.
Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes;
and droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies, no higher than Merrylegs;
and hundreds of cart horses of all sorts, some of them with their long tails
braided up and tied with scarlet cord; and a good many like myself,
handsome and high-bred, but fallen into the middle class, through some
accident or blemish, unsoundness of wind, or some other complaint.
There were some splendid animals quite in their prime, and fit for anything;
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