| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: Au jana! Aua! Oha! Haq!
And the yelping dog-teams go,
And the long whips crack, and the men come back,
Back from the edge of the floe !
We tracked our seal to his secret place,
We heard him scratch below,
We made our mark, and we watched beside,
Out on the edge of the floe.
We raised our lance when he rose to breathe,
We drove it downward--so!
And we played him thus, and we killed him thus,
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: two lighters that lay waiting for the tide. The shop under which
he halted had not, as in modern days, a glazed window, but a
paltry canvas screen surrounded such a stall as a cobbler now
occupies, having the front open, much in the manner of a
fishmonger's booth of the present day. A little old smock-faced
man, the very reverse of a Jew in complexion, for he was very
soft-haired as well as beardless, appeared, and with many
courtesies asked Wayland what he pleased to want. He had no
sooner named the drug, than the Jew started and looked surprised.
"And vat might your vorship vant vith that drug, which is not
named, mein God, in forty years as I have been chemist here?"
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: That Norman of Torn was an outlaw she might have
forgiven, but that he was, according to report, a low
fellow of no birth placed an impassable barrier between
them.
For hours the girl lay sobbing upon the bench, whilst
within her raged the mighty battle of the heart against
the head.
Thus her mother found her, and kneeling beside her,
and with her arms about the girl's neck, tried to soothe
her and to learn the cause of her sorrow. Finally it
came, poured from the flood gates of a sorrowing heart;
The Outlaw of Torn |
