| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: than ever.
Nagaina lifted up her head and hissed, "You warned Rikki-tikki
when I would have killed him. Indeed and truly, you've chosen a
bad place to be lame in." And she moved toward Darzee's wife,
slipping along over the dust.
"The boy broke it with a stone!" shrieked Darzee's wife.
"Well! It may be some consolation to you when you're dead to
know that I shall settle accounts with the boy. My husband lies
on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the
house will lie very still. What is the use of running away? I am
sure to catch you. Little fool, look at me!"
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: Shuffling footsteps scraped the sand, sounded nearer and nearer, slowed
and paused.
"Sparkin'! Dead to the world. Ham! Haw! Haw!"
The coarse laugh gave place to moving footsteps. The rattling clink of
stirrup and spur mingled with the restless stamp of horse. Chance had
mounted. Dene's voice drawled out: "Good-bye, Naab, I shore will see you
all some day." The heavy thuds of many hoofs evened into a roar that
diminished as it rushed away.
In unutterable relief Hare realized his deliverance. He tried to rise,
but power of movement had gone from him.
He was fainting, yet his sensations were singularly acute. Mescal's hand
The Heritage of the Desert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: that a contractor of public works, named Bohier, found the miser's
treasure and used it in the construction of Chenonceaux, that
marvellous chateau which, in spite of the wealth of several kings and
the taste of Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de' Medici for building,
remains unfinished to the present day.
Happily for Marie de Sassenage, the Comte de Saint-Vallier died, as we
know, in his embassy. The family did not become extinct. After the
departure of the count, the countess gave birth to a son, whose career
was famous in the history of France under the reign of Francois I. He
was saved by his daughter, the celebrated Diane de Poitiers, the
illegitimate great-granddaughter of Louis XI., who became the
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