| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: house and felt along the wall with his hands.
He came to a little window where light shone through. He peeped
in. He saw a room shrouded in shadows, a lamp turned low, a
table, chairs. He saw an open door, with bright flare beyond,
but could not see the fire. Voices came indistinctly. Without
hesitation Duane stole farther along--all the way to the end of
the cabin. Peeping round, he saw only the flare of light on
bare ground. Retracing his cautious steps, he paused at the
crack again, saw that no man was in the room, and then he went
on round that end of the cabin. Fortune favored him. There were
bushes, an old shed, a wood-pile, all the cover he needed at
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: thought of work. Ay! But if you wanted to do noth-
ing you had to get first a good bit of money. A
ship won't save you. He cursed the Sofala. True, all
true. He was tired of waiting for some chance that
would rid him at last of that ship that had turned out
a curse on his life.
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The deep, interminable hoot of the steam-whistle had,
in its grave, vibrating note, something intolerable,
which sent a slight shudder down Mr. Van Wyk's back.
It was the early afternoon; the Sofala was leaving Batu
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a
stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love
thee. Get the Red Flower."
By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the
jungle will call fire by its proper name. Every beast lives in
deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it.
"The Red Flower?" said Mowgli. "That grows outside their huts
in the twilight. I will get some."
"There speaks the man's cub," said Bagheera proudly.
"Remember that it grows in little pots. Get one swiftly, and keep
it by thee for time of need."
The Jungle Book |
