| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: smoke wreath, while a woman, with dim features of despair, threw
out her hand to warn him back. Was it his mother? But he had no
power to retreat one step, nor to resist, even in thought, when
the minister and good old Deacon Gookin seized his arms and led
him to the blazing rock. Thither came also the slender form of a
veiled female, led between Goody Cloyse, that pious teacher of
the catechism, and Martha Carrier, who had received the devil's
promise to be queen of hell. A rampant hag was she. And there
stood the proselytes beneath the canopy of fire.
"Welcome, my children," said the dark figure, "to the communion
of your race. Ye have found thus young your nature and your
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: trigger.
Luckily the gun hung fire, and the Yankee captain was spared to
steal logwood a while longer.
All the same, that was no place for Ned Low to make a longer
stay, so off he and his messmates rowed in a whaleboat, captured
a brig out at sea, and turned pirates.
He presently fell in with the notorious Captain Lowther, a fellow
after his own kidney, who put the finishing touches to his
education and taught him what wickedness he did not already know.
And so he became a master pirate, and a famous hand at his craft,
and thereafter forever bore an inveterate hatred of all Yankees
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: difficult task. At Valparaiso, I have seen a living condor sol
for sixpence, but the common price is eight or ten shillings
One which I saw brought in, had been tied with rope, an
was much injured; yet, the moment the line was cut b
which its bill was secured, although surrounded by people
it began ravenously to tear a piece of carrion. In a garde
at the same place, between twenty and thirty were kept alive
They were fed only once a week, but they appeared in prett
good health. [2] The Chileno countrymen assert that the condor
will live, and retain its vigour, between five and six week
without eating: I cannot answer for the truth of this, bu
The Voyage of the Beagle |
