| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: street toward the hotel. She flew up the stairs and out upon the
second-story piazza that looked down upon the road.
From her point of vantage she easily picked them out--the two
unarmed men riding with their hands tied behind their backs,
encircled by a dozen riders armed to the teeth. Bannister's hat
had apparently fallen off farther down the street, for the man
beside him was dusting it. The wounded prisoner looked about him
without fear, but it was plain he was near the limit of
endurance. He was pale as a sheet, and his fair curls clung
moistly to his damp forehead.
McWilliams caught sight of her first, and she could see him turn
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: as to give all possible loftiness and breadth to his forehead.
However, he had an intelligent eye, and, on the whole, a marked
countenance.
"A poet!" repeated the young Shaker, a little puzzled how to
understand such a designation, seldom heard in the utilitarian
community where he had spent his life. "Oh, ay, Miriam, he means
a varse-maker, thee must know."
This remark jarred upon the susceptible nerves of the poet; nor
could he help wondering what strange fatality had put into this
young man's mouth an epithet, which ill-natured people had
affirmed to be more proper to his merit than the one assumed by
The Snow Image |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: With growling sound,
And backward run a step in haste,
And look around
With growling sound.
Then run again a step in haste,
And to my former post go round.
But suddenly my anger grows,
A mighty spirit fills my nose,
My inward feelings all revolt.
A creature such as thou! a dolt!
Pipi, a squirrel able nuts to crack!
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