| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "I call y'u all to witness that my friend killed him in
self-defense," said Bannister evenly. "Y'u all saw him fire
first. Mac did not even have his gun out."
"That's right," agreed one, and another added: "He got what was
coming to him."
"He sure did," was the barkeeper's indorsement. "He came in
hunting trouble, but I reckon he didn't want to be accommodated
so prompt."
"Y'u'll find us at the Gimlet Butte House if we're wanted for
this," said Bannister. "We'll be there till morning."
But once out of the gambling-house McWilliams drew his friend to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: figure going away, limping. Why limping? I don't know. That's how
I see it. One has a notion of a maiming, crippling process; of the
individual coming back damaged in some subtle way. I admit it is a
fantastic hallucination, but I can't help it. Of course I know that
the proceedings of the best machine-made humanity are employed with
judicious care and so on. I am absurd, no doubt, but still . . . Oh
yes it's idiotic. When I pass one of these places . . . did you
notice that there is something infernal about the aspect of every
individual stone or brick of them, something malicious as if matter
were enjoying its revenge of the contemptuous spirit of man. Did
you notice? You didn't? Eh? Well I am perhaps a little mad on
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: Still he lingered. And suddenly his wide-roving eye caught
sight of two horsemen riding up the valley. The must have
entered at a point below, round the huge abutment of rock,
beyond Duane's range of sight. Their horses were tired and
stopped at the stream for a long drink.
Duane left his perch, took to the steep trail, and descended as
fast as he could without making noise. It did not take him long
to reach the valley floor. It was almost level, with deep
grass, and here and there clumps of bushes. Twilight was
already thick down there. Duane marked the location of the
trail, and then began to slip like a shadow through the grass
The Lone Star Ranger |
