| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: of Eustacia's ruminations created a bustle of preparation
at Blooms-End. Thomasin had been persuaded by her aunt,
and by an instinctive impulse of loyalty towards her cousin Clym,
to bestir herself on his account with an alacrity unusual
in her during these most sorrowful days of her life.
At the time that Eustacia was listening to the rick-makers'
conversation on Clym's return, Thomasin was climbing into
a loft over her aunt's fuelhouse, where the store-apples
were kept, to search out the best and largest of them
for the coming holiday-time.
The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole,
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: in that circle. There were chiefs renowned for war, for cunning, for valor,
for wisdom. Their stately presence gave the meeting tenfold importance. Could
these chiefs be interested, moved, the whole western world of Indians might be
civilized.
Hepote, a Maumee chief, of whom it was said he had never listened to words of
the paleface, had the central position in this circle. On his right and left,
respectively, sat Shaushoto and Pipe, implacable foes of all white men. The
latter's aspect did not belie his reputation. His copper-colored, repulsive
visage compelled fear; it breathed vindictiveness and malignity. A singular
action of his was that he always, in what must have been his arrogant vanity,
turned his profile to those who watched him, and it was a remarkable one; it
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: My mouth is bleeding. Let me run away.
Through the night, through the hot night, run swiftly with me, my
brothers. We will leave the lights of the village and go to
the low moon.
Waters of the Waingunga, the Man-Pack have cast me out. I did
them no harm, but they were afraid of me. Why?
Wolf Pack, ye have cast me out too. The jungle is shut to me and
the village gates are shut. Why?
As Mang flies between the beasts and birds, so fly I between the
village and the jungle. Why?
I dance on the hide of Shere Khan, but my heart is very heavy. My
The Jungle Book |
