| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: "What was the trouble?"
"Reckon because Flo made up to Kilbourne," replied Charley, with a grin.
"Ah! I--I see," murmured Carley. A blankness seemed to wave over her. It
extended to the air without, to the sense of the golden sunset. It passed.
What should she ask--what out of a thousand sudden flashing queries? "Are--
are the Hutters back?"
"Sure. Been back several days. I reckoned Hoyle told you. Mebbe he didn't
know, though. For nobody's been to town."
"How is--how are they all?" faltered Carley. There was a strange wall here
between her thought and her utterance.
"Everybody satisfied, I reckon," replied Charley.
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: inks, red, black and blue. Old Sechard, who could neither read nor
write himself, had made a good deal of money at one time by bringing
out an almanac in hieroglyph. It was in book form, a single sheet
folded to make one hundred and twenty-eight pages.
Thoroughly satisfied with the success of the broad sheets, a piece of
business only undertaken by country printing offices, Mme. Sechard
invested all the proceeds in the Shepherd's Calendar, and began it
upon a large scale. Millions of copies of this work are sold annually
in France. It is printed upon even coarser paper than the Almanac of
Liege, a ream (five hundred sheets) costing in the first instance
about four francs; while the printed sheets sell at the rate of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: With filmy gossamers,
The frogs are croaking in the creek,
The sluggish blacksnake stirs,
But still the ground is bare of bloom
Beneath the fragrant firs.
"Arise, arise, O briar rose,
And sleepy violet!
Awake, awake, anemone,
Your wintry dreams forget--
For shame, you tardy marigold,
Are you not budded yet?
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