| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: seriously to live at peace with his fellow-squires, and for his
father's sake as well as his own to enter into none of the broils
that were so frequent in their quarters.
It was with this special admonition against brawling that Myles
was dismissed, to enter, before five minutes had passed, into the
first really great fight of his life.
Besides Gascoyne and Wilkes, he found gathered in the dormitory
six or eight of the company of squires who were to serve that day
upon household duty; among others, Walter Blunt and three other
bachelors, who were changing their coarse service clothes for
others more fit for the household.
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: far away
to Sarablia, the Rsi's kin.
7 Now run ye forth your several ways: he is not here who kept
you
back.
For hath not Indra sunk his bolt deep down in Vrtra's vital
part?
8 On-rushing with the speed of thought within the iron fort
he
pressed:
The Falcon went to heaven and brought the Soma to the Thunderer.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: be a PRETTY howdy-do, WOULDN'T it! I never heard of
such a thing."
"Well," I says, "if it's in the regulations, and he's
got to have it, all right, let him have it; because I
don't wish to go back on no regulations; but there's
one thing, Tom Sawyer -- if we go to tearing up our
sheets to make Jim a rope ladder, we're going to get
into trouble with Aunt Sally, just as sure as you're
born. Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark ladder
don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is
just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
