| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bivouac, for the outlaw knew full well that he had put
his head within the lion's jaw when he had ridden thus
boldly to the seat of English power. He had no faith
in the gratitude of De Montfort, and he knew full well
what the King would urge when he learned that the
man who had sent his soldiers naked back to London,
who had forced his messenger to eat the King's message,
and who had turned his victory to defeat at Lewes,
was within reach of the army of De Montfort.
Norman of Torn loved to fight, but he was no fool,
and so he did not relish pitting his thousand upon an
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: hated it. But he wouldn't let me--he will never let me now."
Wyant was startled by her use of the present tense. Her look
surprised him, too: there was a strange fixity of resentment in
her innocuous eye. Was it possible that she was laboring under
some delusion? Or did the pronoun not refer to her father?
"You mean that Doctor Lombard did not wish you to part with the
picture?"
"No--he prevented me; he will always prevent me."
There was another pause. "You promised him, then, before his
death--"
"No; I promised nothing. He died too suddenly to make me." Her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: won't let them."
"They gotta," snapped Billy Byrne, "an' they will when
they know there's an American girl here with a bunch of
Dagos yappin' around."
"You'll be killed," said Price Clark. "You can't never get
through."
"Leave it to me," replied Billy. "Just get ready an' open
that back door when I give the word, an' then shut it again in
a hurry when I've gone through."
He led a horse from the side room, and mounted it.
"Open her up, boes!" he shouted, and "S'long everybody!"
The Mucker |
