| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: fingers. Girty uttered a frightful curse; he writhed with pain, but could not
free himself from the vise-like clutch. He drew his tomahawk and with a scream
aimed a vicious blow at Joe. He missed his aim, however, for Silvertip had
intervened and turned the course of the keen hatchet. But the weapon struck
Joe a glancing blow, inflicting a painful, though not dangerous wound.
The renegade's nose was skinned and bleeding profusely. He was frantic with
fury, and tried to get at Joe; but Silvertip remained in front of his captive
until some of the braves led Girty into the forest, where the tall chief had
already disappeared.
The nose-pulling incident added to the gayety of the Shawnees, who evidently
were pleased with Girty's discomfiture. They jabbered among themselves and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: And King Agamemnon answered, "Menelaus, we both of us need shrewd
counsel to save the Argives and our ships, for Jove has changed
his mind, and inclines towards Hector's sacrifices rather than
ours. I never saw nor heard tell of any man as having wrought
such ruin in one day as Hector has now wrought against the sons
of the Achaeans--and that too of his own unaided self, for he is
son neither to god nor goddess. The Argives will rue it long and
deeply. Run, therefore, with all speed by the line of the ships,
and call Ajax and Idomeneus. Meanwhile I will go to Nestor, and
bid him rise and go about among the companies of our sentinels to
give them their instructions; they will listen to him sooner than
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: Stetson whenever he met them, and then hurry past to get back to his
beloved berries.
And all this recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point
where you may be told why Dry Valley shook up the insoluble sulphur in
the bottle. So long-drawn and inconsequential a thing is history--the
anamorphous shadow of a milestone reaching down the road between us
and the setting sun.
When his strawberries were beginning to ripen Dry Valley bought the
heaviest buggy whip in the Santa Rosa store. He sat for many hours
under the live oak tree plaiting and weaving in an extension to its
lash. When it was done he could snip a leaf from a bush twenty feet
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