| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: He was amazed to find that, bitter as he had grown at fate, the
desire to live burned strong in him. If he had been as
unfortunately situated, but with the difference that no man
wanted to put him in jail or take his life, he felt that this
burning passion to be free, to save himself, might not have
been so powerful. Life certainly held no bright prospects for
him. Already he had begun to despair of ever getting back to
his home. But to give up like a white-hearted coward, to let
himself be handcuffed and jailed, to run from a drunken,
bragging cowboy, or be shot in cold blood by some border brute
who merely wanted to add another notch to his gun--these things
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: contemplated him mournfully. Then raising her head, she asked
Davidson whether he thought the child would get better. Davidson
was sure of it. She murmured sadly: 'Poor kid. There's nothing
in life for such as he. Not a dog's chance. But I couldn't let
him go, Davy! I couldn't.'
"Davidson felt a profound pity for the child. She laid her hand on
his knee and whispered an earnest warning against the Frenchman.
Davy must never let him come to close quarters. Naturally Davidson
wanted to know the reason, for a man without hands did not strike
him as very formidable under any circumstances.
"'Mind you don't let him - that's all,' she insisted anxiously,
Within the Tides |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: Cardinal de Noailles is to die upon the fourth of April, and if
that should be verified as exactly as this of poor Partridge, I
must own I should be wholly surprized, and at a loss, and should
infallibly expect the accomplishment of all the rest.
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An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack-Maker.
Well, 'tis as Bickerstaff has guess'd,
Tho' we all took it for a jest;
Partridge is dead, nay more, he dy'd
E're he could prove the good 'Squire ly'd.
Strange, an Astrologer shou'd die,
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