| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: soldiers standing uncovered and with bowed heads
about him. Presently he found her.
"Bertrade!" he whispered.
The girl came and knelt beside him, opposite the
Queen.
"Bertrade, tell me thou art real; that thou at least
be no dream."
"I be very real, dear heart," she answered, "and these
others be real, also. When thou art stronger, thou shalt
understand the strange thing that has happened. These
who wert thine enemies, Norman of Torn, be thy best
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would
be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the
Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together
with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to
fear."
"That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes.
"Good God! What a week she must have spent!"
"The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet,
"and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to
post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor
customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days."
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: All who were present showed surprise, and Lord Woodville
immediately replied "Post horses, my good friend! What can you
possibly want with them when you promised to stay with me quietly
for at least a week?"
"I believe," said the General, obviously much embarrassed, "that
I might, in the pleasure of my first meeting with your lordship,
have said something about stopping here a few days; but I have
since found it altogether impossible."
"That is very extraordinary," answered the young nobleman. "You
seemed quite disengaged yesterday, and you cannot have had a
summons to-day, for our post has not come up from the town, and
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