| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: lanthorn to assure himself that the work had been well done - he had all
the air of being not only dead but already half buried.
And now, for a second, Mr. Wilding was in his greatest danger, and this
from the very humaneness of the sergeant. The fellow advanced to the
captain's side, a pistol in his hand. Wentworth held the light aloft
and peered down into that six feet of blackness at the jacent figure.
"Shall I give him an ounce of lead to make sure, Captain?" quoth the
sergeant. But Wentworth, in his great haste, had already turned about,
and the light of his lanthorn no longer revealed the form of Mr. Wilding.
"There is not the need. The ditch will do what may remain to be done,
if anything does. Come on, man. We are wanted yonder."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: kept ringing that in my ears. With the
Rube working his iron arm for the edification of
his proud Nancy Brown, there was extreme likelihood
of divers shut-outs and humiliating defeats
for some Eastern League teams.
How well I calculated became a matter of
baseball history during that last week of June. We
won six straight games, three of which fell to the
Rube's credit. His opponents scored four runs
in the three games, against the nineteen we made.
Upon July 1, Radbourne beat Providence and
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: sent him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too.
BAWD.
Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure: crack the glass of
her virginity, and make the rest malleable.
BOULT.
An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she is, she shall
be ploughed.
MARINA.
Hark, hark, you gods!
BAWD.
She conjures: away with her! Would she had never come within my
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