| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: when to my astonishment I found her standing not ten paces
behind me.
"Girl!" I cried, "what are you doing here? I thought
that you had gone to the cave, as I told you to do."
Up went her head, and the look that she gave me took
all the majesty out of me, and left me feeling more
like the palace janitor--if palaces have janitors.
"As you told me to do!" she cried, stamping her little foot.
"I do as I please. I am the daughter of a king,
and furthermore, I hate you."
I was dumbfounded--this was my thanks for saving
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: unhappy. Because you don't love him is no reason--[Abruptly
breaking off.] Of course you don't love him? [LORETTA shakes her
head and shoulders vigorously.] What?
LORETTA. [Explosively.] No, I don't love Billy! I don't want to
love Billy!
NED. [With confidence.] Because you don't love him is no reason
that you should be unhappy just because he has proposed to you.
LORETTA. [Sobbing.] That's the trouble. I wish I did love him.
Oh, I wish I were dead.
NED. [Growing complacent.] Now my dear child, you are worrying
yourself over trifles. [His second hand joins the first in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: lounge and a pool of blood, still warm and red, lay on
the floor in a widening circle beneath it. His quick
eye took in its significance at a glance. He sprang
forward, ripped the shirt wide open and applied his ear
to the breast.
"He's still alive!" he cried excitedly.
He examined the ugly wound in the left side and
found that the knife had penetrated the lung. The
heart had not been touched. The blow on the neck had
not been fatal. The shock of the final stroke had
merely choked the wounded man into collapse from the
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