| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the very leaves upon the bushes quiver, and the solid stone beneath
his feet to reel and ring. For two hundred yards and more above
the fall nothing met his eye but one white waste of raging foam,
with here and there a transverse dyke of rock, which hurled columns
of spray and surges of beaded water high into the air,--strangely
contrasting with the still and silent cliffs of green leaves which
walled the river right and left, and more strangely still with the
knots of enormous palms upon the islets, which reared their
polished shafts a hundred feet into the air, straight and upright
as masts, while their broad plumes and golden-clustered fruit slept
in the sunshine far aloft, the image of the stateliest repose amid
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: quadrupled. The little Texas-league hits dropped
safely just out of reach of the infielders. My boys
had an off day in fielding. What horror that of
all days in a season this should be the one for
them to make errors!
But they were game, and the Rube was the
gamest of all. He did not seem to know what
hard luck was, or discouragement, or poor support.
He kept everlastingly hammering the ball
at those lucky Providence hitters. What speed he
had! The ball streaked in, and somebody would
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: posing stature and walked across to the binnacle, hold-
ing such an unswerving course that the other had to
back away hurriedly, and remained as if intimidated,
with the pipe trembling in his hand. "Walk over me
now," he muttered in a sort of astounded and dis-
comfited whisper. Then slowly and distinctly he
said--
"I--am--not--dirt." And then added defiantly, "As
you seem to think."
The Serang jerked out--
"See the palms now, Tuan."
End of the Tether |
