| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: kindly opening clause of my remark. Of that I had no shadow of
doubt. You would have thought as I did. You would not have
expected a base betrayal from one whom you had befriended and
against whom you had committed no offence. And so with perfect
confidence, perfect trust, I wrote on a piece of paper the opening
words--ending with "Go, and reform," --and signed it. When I was
about to put it in an envelope I was called into my back office, and
without thinking I left the paper lying open on my desk." He
stopped, turned his head slowly toward Billson, waited a moment,
then added: "I ask you to note this; when I returned, a little
latter, Mr. Billson was retiring by my street door." [Sensation.]
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: their quarry.
As they galloped from the open gates, Mugambi, hiding
in a nearby bush, slipped, unseen, within the palisade.
A score of blacks crowded about the entrance to watch
the searchers depart, and as the last of them passed
out of the village the blacks seized the portals and
drew them to, and Mugambi lent a hand in the work as
though the best of his life had been spent among the
raiders.
In the darkness he passed, unchallenged, as one of
their number, and as they returned from the gates to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Peoples imperial, mighty,
Masterful, challenging fate,
The tread of your cohorts shakes the hills--
But lo! ye are not great!
Nations that swarm and murmur,
Ye are moths that flutter and climb--
Ye are whirling gnats, ye are swirling bees,
Tossed in the winds of time!
Earth that is flushed with glory,
A marvelous world ye are!
But lo! in the midst of a million stars
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