| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon: soul of the Russian is capable:--
``The Frenchmen had caught some unhappy peasants in Moscow, whom
they thought to force to serve in their ranks, and in order that
they should not be able to escape they branded their hands as one
brands horses in the stud. One of them asked what this mark
meant; he was told it signified that he was a French soldier.
`What! I am a soldier of the Emperor of the French!' he said.
And immediately he took his hatchet, cut off his hand, and threw
it at the feet of those present, saying, `Take it--there's your
mark!'
``At Moscow, too, the French had taken a score of peasants of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: warrior spoke seriously, almost solemnly--"upon thee doth rest
matters of such great import that did I tell them to thee thou
couldst not grasp them. My Lord deems that thou hast, mayhap,
promise beyond the common of men; ne'theless it remaineth yet to
be seen an he be right; it is yet to test whether that promise
may be fulfilled. Next Monday I and Sir Everard Willoughby take
thee in hand to begin training thee in the knowledge and the use
of the jousting lance, of arms, and of horsemanship. Thou art to
go to Ralph Smith, and have him fit a suit of plain armor to thee
which he hath been charged to make for thee against this time. So
get thee gone, think well over all these matters, and prepare
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: glow of reflected light filled the little kitchen. It was warm and
cozy; the kettle sang like the purring of a cat. And something else
that had troubled Sara Lee came out.
"I wonder," she said, "if you are doing all this only because I - well,
because I persuaded you." Which she had not. "Do the men really need
me here?"
"Need you, mademoiselle?"
"Do they need what little I can give? They were smiling, all the ones
I saw."
"A Belgian soldier always smiles. Even when he is fighting." His voice
had lost its gayety and had taken on a deeper note. "Mademoiselle, I
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