| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: the office of Mace. There the commissary informed her that
she must consider herself under provisional arrest. "But who,"
she asked indignantly, "is to look after my Georges?" "His
family," was the curt reply. The widow, walking up and down the
room like a panther, stormed and threatened. When she had in
some degree recovered herself, Mace asked her certain
questions. Why had she insisted on her lover going to the ball?
She had done nothing of the kind. How was it his assailant
had got away so quickly by the open gate? She did not know.
What was the name and address of her reputed brother? She was
not going to deliver an honest father of a family into the
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: uncanny shrieks that swept, shrill and terrifying, across the
city's walls, over the heads of the besiegers, and out across
the forest to the uttermost confines of the valley.
Once, twice, thrice the fearsome sound smote upon the
ears of the listening green men and then far, far off
across the broad woods came sharp and clear from the
distance an answering shriek.
It was but the first. From every point rose similar
savage cries, until the world seemed to tremble to their
reverberations.
The green warriors looked nervously this way and that.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Through the forest, wide and wailing,
Roamed the hunter on his snow-shoes;
In the village worked the women,
Pounded maize, or dressed the deer-skin;
And the young men played together
On the ice the noisy ball-play,
On the plain the dance of snow-shoes.
One dark evening, after sundown,
In her wigwam Laughing Water
Sat with old Nokomis, waiting
For the steps of Hiawatha
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