| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: you wish, you may enter with half a dozen men and
search the castle."
This the officer did and when he had assured him-
self that Norman of Torn was not within an hour had
passed, and Joan de Tany felt certain that the Outlaw
of Torn was too far ahead to be caught by the King's
men; so she said:
"There was one here just before you came who called
himself though by another name than Norman of Torn,
possibly it is he ye seek."
"Which way rode he?" cried the officer.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: The moon without, as pure and calm,
Is shining as that night she shone;
But now, to us, she brings no balm,
For something from our hearts is gone.
Something whose absence leaves a void--
A cheerless want in every heart;
Each feels the bliss of all destroyed,
And mourns the change--but each apart.
The fire is burning in the grate
As redly as it used to burn;
But still the hearth is desolate,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: I was alone there, quite alone, just like the others.
Each man was alone. Was I to give up my re-
volver? Who to? Or was I to throw it into the
sea? What would have been the good? Only the
best man would survive. It was a great, terrible,
and cruel misfortune."
He had survived! I saw him before me as
though preserved for a witness to the mighty truth
of an unerring and eternal principle. Great beads
of perspiration stood on his forehead. And sud-
denly it struck the table with a heavy blow, as he
Falk |
