| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: is the cut of the cables upon the base of that one, and very big
cables they must have been."
We stared at one another--that is, Bickley and I did, for
Bastin was still engaged in contemplating the blackened head of
the god which he had overthrown.
Chapter IX
The Island in the Lake
We made the canoe fast and landed on the great rock, to
perceive that it was really a peninsula. That is to say, it was
joined to the main land of the lake island by a broad roadway
quite fifty yards across, which appeared to end in the mouth of
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: August Naub's eyes were bloodshot. One shake of his great body flung
Hare off. He dragged Paul Caldwell across the grass toward the
cottonwood as easily as if he were handling an empty grain-sack.
Hare suddenly darted after him. "August! August!--look! look!" he
cried. He pointed a shaking finger down the square. The old Bishop came
tottering over the grass, leaning on his cane, shading his eyes with his
hand. "August. See, the Bishop's coming. Paul's father! Do you hear?"
Hare's appeal pierced Naab's frenzied brain. The Mormon Elder saw his
old Bishop pause and stare at the dark shapes suspended from the
cottonwoods and hold up his hands in horror.
Naab loosed his hold. His frame seemed wrenched as though by the passing
The Heritage of the Desert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: afar, who crieth by the mouth of his prophet, `Wash you, make you
clean: put away from before mine eyes the wickedness of your
souls; learn to do well'; and `Though your sins be as scarlet, I
will make them white as snow; though they be red like crimson, I
will make them as wool.' Fear not, therefore, O my father,
neither be of doubtful mind: for the sins of them that turn to
God prevail not against his infinite goodness. For these,
however many, are subject to measure and number: but measure and
number cannot limit his goodness. It is impossible then for that
which is subject to measure to exceed the unmeasurable."
With such comfortable words did Ioasaph cheer his soul, and bring
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