| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him to remain, as he raised her hand to his lips in
farewell. So Norman of Torn rode out of the courtyard;
and as his men fell in behind him under the first rays
of the drawing day, the daughter of De Tany watched
them through the gate, and a great light broke upon
her, for what she saw was the same as she had seen a
few days since when she had turned in her saddle to
watch the retreating forms of the cut-throats of Torn
as they rode on after halting her father's party.
CHAPTER XIV
SOME hours later fifty men followed Norman of Torn
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: pilgrimage. Mr. M'Callum was another instance of the same. He had
read of the South Seas; loved to read of them; and let their image
fasten in his heart: till at length he could refrain no longer -
must set forth, a new Rudel, for that unseen homeland - and has now
dwelt for years in Hiva-oa, and will lay his bones there in the end
with full content; having no desire to behold again the places of
his boyhood, only, perhaps - once, before he dies - the rude and
wintry landscape of Cape Flattery. Yet he is an active man, full
of schemes; has bought land of the natives; has planted five
thousand coco-palms; has a desert island in his eye, which he
desires to lease, and a schooner in the stocks, which he has laid
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: Governor of the Isle of Bourbon, by the grateful writer.
DE BALZAC.
In 1828, at about one o'clock one morning, two persons came out of a
large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, near the Elysee-
Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one
of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were
friends of long standing. Each had sent away his carriage, and no cab
was to be seen in the street; but the night was fine, and the pavement
dry.
"We will walk as far as the boulevard," said Eugene de Rastignac to
Bianchon. "You can get a hackney cab at the club; there is always one
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