| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: the native who had helped him get the frogs.
"Bet your life!" exclaimed the man. "Divvy, won't you?" And he
held out half his gains.
"Keep 'em," returned the Southerner. "I reckon we're square. But
I expaict they'll not equal Delmonico's, seh?" he said to a
passenger.
"Don't trust the judgment of a man as hungry as I am!" exclaimed
the traveller, with a laugh. And he turned to his
fellow-travellers. "Did you ever enjoy supper at Delmonico's more
than this?"
"Never!" they sighed.
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: teeth fashionably blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarfs,
tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern
Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd,
looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery
establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants
decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage
was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice,
and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium,
which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.
He went on till he found himself in the fields, in the midst of vast
Around the World in 80 Days |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing, woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice?
Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee?
Little lamb, I'll tell thee;
Little lamb, I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name,
For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
