| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: brake, or else Duane noted it suddenly. He imagined it to be
caused by the approaching storm. But there was little movement
of air or cloud, and thunder still muttered and rumbled at a
distance. The fact was the sun had set, and at this time of
overcast sky night was at hand.
Duane realized it with the awakening of all his old force. He
would yet elude his pursuers. That was the moment when he
seized the significance of all these fortunate circumstances
which had aided him. Without haste and without sound he began
to crawl in the direction of the river. It was not far, and he
reached the bank before darkness set in. There were men up on
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: proper contingent of her officers 'skipping in my 'all.'
We have just had a feast on my birthday at which we had three of
the Ringaromas, and I wish they had been three CURACOAS - say
yourself, Hoskin, and Burney the ever Great. (Consider this an
invitation.) Our boys had got the thing up regardless. There were
two huge sows - oh, brutes of animals that would have broken down a
hansom cab - four smaller pigs, two barrels of beef, and a horror
of vegetables and fowls. We sat down between forty and fifty in a
big new native house behind the kitchen that you have never seen,
and ate and public spoke till all was blue. Then we had about half
an hour's holiday with some beer and sherry and brandy and soda to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: You are always there, are you not? Ah--I don't mean it
seriously! But it is amusing to look for somebody one knows
in a crowd, even if one does not want him. It takes off the
terrible oppressiveness of being surrounded by a throng, and
having no point of junction with it through a single
individual."
"Ay! Maybe you'll be very lonely, ma'am?"
"Nobody knows how lonely."
"But you are rich, they say?"
"If so, I don't know how to enjoy my riches. I came to
Casterbridge thinking I should like to live here. But I
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
