| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: Therefore F. and I alone followed on after the herd. It was now
coming on dusk. Within a hundred yards we began to see scattered
beasts. The formation of the herd had broken. Some had gone on in
flight, while others in small scattered groups would stop to
stare back, and would then move slowly on for a few paces before
stopping again. Among these I made out a bull facing us about a
hundred and twenty-five yards away, and managed to stagger him,
but could not bring him down.
Now occurred an incident which I should hesitate to relate were
it not that both F. and myself saw it. We have since talked it
over, compared our recollections, and found them to coincide in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: revealing to another an appreciation of a literature hitherto
ignored.
"Isn't he strong!" cried Travis. "Just a LITTLE better than Marie
Corelli and the Duchess!"
"And to think of having all those stories to read! You haven't
read any of them yet?"
"Not a one. I've been reading only the novels we take up in the
Wednesday class."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "Beware of what you do!" cried the young woman, in a manner so
serious as to make D'Artagnan start in spite of himself. "Oh,
meddle in nothing which concerns me. Do not seek to assist me in
that which I am accomplishing. This I ask of you in the name of
the interest with which I inspire you, in the name of the service
you have rendered me and which I never shall forget while I have
life. Rather, place faith in what I tell you. Have no more
concern about me; I exist no longer for you, any more than if you
had never seen me."
"Must Aramis do as much as I, madame?" said D'Artagnan, deeply
piqued.
The Three Musketeers |
