| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: bewilderment closed down again like a fog over his countenance.
"But why? I can't see----"
"Because it--because I can't stand it any longer. Flapping.
This is what you do. Like this."
And she did it. Did it with insulting fidelity, being a clever
mimic.
"Well, all I can say is you're crazy, yelling like that, for
nothing."
"It isn't nothing."
"Isn't, huh? If that isn't nothing, what is?" They were
growing incoherent. "What d'you mean, screeching like a maniac?
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Poggin, if that cold-eyed, dead-faced Knell had only been at
Ord! But they were not, and Duane with help of time got what he
hoped was the upper hand of himself.
CHAPTER XXII
Again inaction and suspense dragged at Duane's spirit. Like a
leashed hound with a keen scent in his face Duane wanted to
leap forth when he was bound. He almost fretted. Something
called to him over the bold, wild brow of Mount Ord. But while
Fletcher stayed in Ord waiting for Knell and Poggin, or for
orders, Duane knew his game was again a waiting one.
But one day there were signs of the long quiet of Ord being
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: It only awaited the stowage of the passengers.
Isaac Hakkabut was the first to take his place in the car. But scarcely
had he done so, when Servadac noticed that his waist was encompassed
by an enormous girdle that bulged out to a very extraordinary extent.
"What's all this, Hakkabut?" he asked.
"It's only my little bit of money, your Excellency; my modest little fortune--
a mere bagatelle," said the Jew.
"And what may your little fortune weigh?" inquired the captain.
"Only about sixty-six pounds!" said Isaac.
"Sixty-six pounds!" cried Servadac. "We haven't reckoned for this."
"Merciful heavens!" began the Jew.
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