| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: have inconvenienced the party on some pretext or other if he had
not been sharply silenced by the cowboys.
Madeline's guests were two days in recovering from the hard ride.
On the third day they leisurely began to prepare for departure.
This period was doubly trying for Madeline. She had her own
physical need of rest, and, moreover, had to face a mental
conflict that could scarcely be postponed further. Her sister
and friends were kindly and earnestly persistent in their
entreaties that she go back East with them. She desired to go.
It was not going that mattered; it was how and when and under
what circumstances she was to return that roused in her
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: have his secret at all now, it had treated him so mean.
He said he would sail his balloon around the globe just
to show what he could do, and then he would sink it in
the sea, and sink us all along with it, too. Well, it was
the awfulest fix to be in, and here was night coming
on!
He give us something to eat, and made us go to the
other end of the boat, and he laid down on a locker,
where he could boss all the works, and put his old
pepper-box revolver under his head, and said if any-
body come fooling around there trying to land her, he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: But never came the day:
And crooked shapes of Terror crouched,
In the corners where we lay:
And each evil sprite that walks by night
Before us seemed to play.
They glided past, they glided fast,
Like travellers through a mist:
They mocked the moon in a rigadoon
Of delicate turn and twist,
And with formal pace and loathsome grace
The phantoms kept their tryst.
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