| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: "But Laddy rode Sol once--made him beat Diablo. Jim saw the race."
Nell laughed. "I saw it, too. For that matter, even I have made
Sol put his nose before Dad's favorite."
"I'd like to have seen that. Nell, aren't you ever going to ride
with me?"
"Some day--when it's safe."
"Safe!"
"I--I mean when the raiders have left the border."
"Oh, I'm glad you mean that," said Dick, laughing.
"Well, I've often wondered how Belding ever came to give Blanco Sol
to me."
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: great social mill; one of those Parisian Ratons whom their
Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure
machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of
those men, in short, at sight of whom we are prompted to remark
that, "After all, we cannot do without them."
Stately Paris ignores the existence of these faces bleached by
moral or physical suffering; but, then, Paris is in truth an
ocean that no line can plumb. You may survey its surface and
describe it; but no matter how numerous and painstaking the
toilers in this sea, there will always be lonely and unexplored
regions in its depths, caverns unknown, flowers and pearls and
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: and only admitted the mysterious light calculated for beatific
reveries. All the mundane objects that generally strike the eye
on entering the room of a young man, particularly when that young
man is a Musketeer, had disappeared as if by enchantment; and for
fear, no doubt, that the sight of them might bring his master
back to ideas of this world, Bazin had laid his hands upon sword,
pistols, plumed hat, and embroideries and laces of all kinds and
sorts. In their stead D'Artagnan thought he perceived in an
obscure corner a discipline cord suspended from a nail in the
wall.
At the noise made by D'Artagnan in entering, Aramis lifted up his
The Three Musketeers |
