| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: us and these old men whom we have loved so long, the inevitable end
draws near and is welcome. To read this well is to anticipate
experience. Ah, if only when these hours of the long shadows fall
for us in reality and not in figure, we may hope to face them with
a mind as quiet!
But my paper is running out; the siege guns are firing on the Dutch
frontier; and I must say adieu for the fifth time to my old comrade
fallen on the field of glory. ADIEU - rather AU REVOIR! Yet a
sixth time, dearest d'Artagnan, we shall kidnap Monk and take horse
together for Belle Isle.
CHAPTER XV. A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: danced together.
"That Mayrant chap will do," he declared; and we composed ourselves for a
proper entrance into the sitting room, where the introductions had been
made, and where Doctor Beaugarcon and Mrs. Braintree's husband had
already fallen into war reminiscences, and were discovering with mutual
amiability that they had fought against each other in a number of
battles.
"And you generally licked us," smiled the Union soldier.
"Ah! don't I know myself how it feels to run!" laughed the Confederate.
"Are you down at the club?"
But upon learning from the poetess that her ode was now to be read aloud,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: somethin' was doin'.
"When he got close he straightened up, put back his slouch hat,
an' looked at us. Then I saw his face. It sorta electrified yours
truly. It was white, with veins standin' out an' eyes flamin'--a
face of fury. I was plumb amazed, didn't know what to think.
Then this queer young man shot some cool, polite words at me an' Jim.
"He was only bluffin' at bein' drunk--he meant to rush Rojas, to
start a rough house. Then bandit was after a girl. This girl was
in the hotel, an' she was the sweetheart of a soldier, the young
fellow's friend. The hotel was watched by Rojas's guards, an'
the plan was to make a fuss an' get the girl away in the excitement.
Desert Gold |
