| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: with her out there if you DID rope her?"
So I learned one thing more about cows.
After the steer cut had been finished, the men representing the
neighbouring ranges looked through the herd for strays of their
brands. These were thrown into the stray-herd, which had been
brought up from the bottom lands to receive the new accessions.
Work was pushed rapidly, as the afternoon was nearly gone.
In fact, so absorbed were we that until it was almost upon us we
did not notice a heavy thunder-shower that arose in the region of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: paginated, you see, and I have indulged in the civil coquetry
of a ribbon of red tape. It has almost a legal air, hasn't it?
Run your eye over it, Austin. It is an account of the
entertainment Mrs. Beaumont provided for her choicer guests.
The man who wrote this escaped with his life, but I do not
think he will live many years. The doctors tell him he must
have sustained some severe shock to the nerves."
Austin took the manuscript, but never read it. Opening
the neat pages at haphazard his eye was caught by a word and a
phrase that followed it; and, sick at heart, with white lips and
a cold sweat pouring like water from his temples, he flung the
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: inner and outer walls, which were set at intervals with
small projecting towers so pierced that a flanking fire
from long bows, cross bows and javelins might be di-
rected against a scaling party.
The fourth side of the walled enclosure overhung a
high precipice, which natural protection rendered tow-
ers unnecessary upon this side.
The main gateway of the castle looked toward the
west and from it ran the tortuous and rocky trail, down
through the mountains toward the valley below. The
aspect from the great gate was one of quiet and rugged
The Outlaw of Torn |
