| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: withhold it?"
"I won't hev nuthin' to do with this bizness. The chiefs hev condemned the
village, an' it'll hev to go. If you fellars hed been careful, no white blood
would hev been spilled. I advise you all to lay low till it's over."
"Will you let me speak to your men, to try and get them to follow me?"
"Heckewelder asked that same thing. He was persistent, and I took a vote fer
him just to show how my men stood. Eighteen of them said they'd follow him;
the rest wouldn't interfere."
"Eighteen! My God!" cried Jim, voicing the passion which consumed him. "You
are white men, yet you will stand by and see these innocent people murdered!
Man, where's your humanity? Your manhood? These converted Indians are savages
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: But, when there's money to be lent,
A man must be allowed to choose
Such times as are convenient!'
It chanced one day, as Peter sat
Gnawing a crust--his usual meal--
Paul bustled in to have a chat,
And grasped his hand with friendly zeal.
'I knew,' said he, 'your frugal ways:
So, that I might not wound your pride
By bringing strangers in to gaze,
I've left my legal friend outside!
Sylvie and Bruno |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
No question entered my mind but that here lay the opening of
the avenue of escape which Thurid had followed, and had there been
it would have been dissipated by the sight of a tiny, jeweled
ornament which lay a few steps within the corridor beyond.
As I snatched up the bauble I saw that it bore the device of
the Princess of Helium, and then pressing it to my lips I dashed
madly along the winding way that led gently downward toward the
lower galleries of the palace.
The Warlord of Mars |
