| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: then shivered. They seemed to be stretching in the moonlight.
She put her hand into one white bin: the gold scarcely showed
on her fingers by moonlight. She bent down to look at the binful
of yellow pollen; but it only appeared dusky. Then she drank a deep
draught of the scent. It almost made her dizzy.
Mrs. Morel leaned on the garden gate, looking out, and she
lost herself awhile. She did not know what she thought.
Except for a slight feeling of sickness, and her consciousness in
the child, herself melted out like scent into the shiny, pale air.
After a time the child, too, melted with her in the mixing-pot
of moonlight, and she rested with the hills and lilies and houses,
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: and the people, in a fury, insisted upon their being burnt
instead of being hung."
"And the people were right," said the abbe. "Go on."
"But," resumed the man, "at the moment the archers were
broken, at the moment the fire was set to one of the houses
of the Place destined to serve as a funeral-pile for the
guilty, this fury, this demon, this giant of whom I told
you, and who we had been informed, was the proprietor of the
house in question, aided by a young man who accompanied him,
threw out of the window those who kept up the fire, called
to his assistance the musketeers who were in the crowd,
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: gold, but the lure of gold was there, too, for he had learned
among civilized men something of the miracles that may
be wrought by the possessor of the magic yellow metal. What
he would do with a golden fortune in the heart of savage
Africa it had not occurred to him to consider--it would be
enough to possess the power to work wonders, even though he
never had an opportunity to employ it.
So one glorious tropical morning Waziri, chief of the Waziri,
set out at the head of fifty clean-limbed ebon warriors
in quest of adventure and of riches. They followed the course
which old Waziri had described to Tarzan. For days they
The Return of Tarzan |
