| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: pungent clouds of chaff. It moved belly-deep in the standing
grain, a hippopotamus, half-mired in river ooze, gorging rushes,
snorting, sweating; a dinosaur wallowing through thick, hot
grasses, floundering there, crouching, grovelling there as its
vast jaws crushed and tore, and its enormous gullet swallowed,
incessant, ravenous, and inordinate.
S. Behrman, very much amused, changed places with one of the sack
sewers, allowing him to hold his horse while he mounted the
sacking platform and took his place. The trepidation and
jostling of the machine shook him till his teeth chattered in his
head. His ears were shocked and assaulted by a myriad-tongued
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: For Venus, which was enemie
Of thilke loves micherie,
Discovereth al the pleine cas
To Clymene, which thanne was
Toward Phebus his concubine.
And sche to lette the covine
Of thilke love, dedli wroth
To pleigne upon this Maide goth, 6760
And tolde hire fader hou it stod;
Wherof for sorwe welnyh wod
Unto hire moder thus he saide:
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: rose, and caught sight of the old "bear's" face under an almond-tree
that grew out of the hedge.
"Good day, father," called David.
"Why, is it you, my boy? How come you to be out on the road at this
time of day? There is your way in," he added, pointing to a little
wicket gate. "My vines have flowered and not a shoot has been frosted.
There will be twenty puncheons or more to the acre this year; but then
look at all the dung that has been put on the land!"
"Father, I have come on important business."
"Very well; how are your presses doing? You must be making heaps of
money as big as yourself."
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