| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "but I forgave, and I now forgive all over again. Though I still
insist--"
"That I should have a guardian," she interrupted. "But that day
will never come. Thank goodness I'm of legal age and able to
transact business in my own right. And speaking of business, how
do you like my forceful American methods?"
"Mr. Raff, from what I hear, doesn't take kindly to them," he
temporized, "and you've certainly set the dry bones rattling for
many a day. But what I want to know is if other American women are
as successful in business ventures?"
"Luck, 'most all luck," she disclaimed modestly, though her eyes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: battle alone.
But four to one were odds too great, and though Myles struggled
as fiercely as ever, by-and-by it was with less and less
resistance.
Blunt had picked up the clog he had dropped when he first
attacked the lad, and now stood over the struggling heap, white
with rage, the blood running from his lip, cut and puffed where
Myles had struck him, and murder looking out from his face, if
ever it looked out of the face of any mortal being.
"Hold him a little," said he, fiercely, "and I will still him for
you."
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: various within itself. My French friends wanted to talk of the
"Psychology of the Rentier." I was for such untranslatable
phrases as the "Genteel Whig," or the "Donnish Liberal." But I
lit up an Italian--he is a Milanese manufacturer--with "these
Florentine English who would keep Italy in a glass case." "I
know," he said. Before I go on to expand this congenial theme,
let me deal first with the Resentful Employee, who is a much more
considerable, and to me a much more sympathetic, figure in
European affairs. I began life myself as a Resentful Employee.
By the extremest good luck I have got my mind and spirit out of
the distortions of that cramping beginning, but I can still
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