| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: the ground. And the wolves smelt the blood and
took out after him, yipping and yowling something
frightful to hear, and the hoss he kicked out be-
hind and killed the head wolf and the others stopped
to eat him up, and while they was eating him the
hoss gained a quarter of a mile. But they et him
up and they was gaining agin, fur the smell of human
blood was on the plains of Oregon, he says, and the
sight of his mother's face when she ast him never
to be a cowboy come to him in the moonlight,
and he knowed that somehow all would yet be well,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
Red men from Helium and Ptarth, yellow men of the north,
rubbing elbows with the blacks of the First Born who had come
under my friend Xodar to help in the search for me and my princess.
There were savage, green warriors from the dead sea bottoms
of the south, and a handful of white-skinned therns who had
renounced their religion and sworn allegiance to Xodar.
There was Tardos Mors and Mors Kajak, and tall and mighty in his
gorgeous warrior trappings, Carthoris, my son. These three fell
upon Dejah Thoris as we entered the apartment, and though the lives
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: something that she could not give me immediately. Oh! sir, a woman's
devotion is sublime!"
There was a sharp distress in the doctor's exclamation which seemed
prompted by some recollection of his own; he paused for a brief while,
and Genestas respected his musings.
"Well, sir," Benassis resumed, "something happened which should have
concluded the marriage thus begun; but instead of that it put an end
to it, and was the cause of all my misfortunes. My father died and
left me a large fortune. The necessary business arrangements demanded
my presence in Languedoc for several months, and I went thither alone.
At last I had regained my freedom! Even the mildest yoke is galling to
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