| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: felt a cold tightening of the skin of his face, and a hard swell of his
breast. ,The dance of Snap's eyes, the downward flit of his hand seemed
instantaneous with a red flash and loud report. Instinctively Hare
dodged, but the light impact of something like a puff of air gave place
to a tearing hot agony. Then he slipped down, back to the stone, with a
bloody hand fumbling at his breast.
Dave leaped with tigerish agility, and knocking up the levelled Colt,
held Snap as in a vise. George Naab gave Holderness's horse a sharp kick
which made the mettlesome beast jump so suddenly that his rider was
nearly unseated. Zeke ran to Hare and laid him back against the stone.
"Cool down, there!" ordered Zeke. "He's done for."
The Heritage of the Desert |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: trimmed beard, the perpendicular fold on the forehead, something
hard and set about the mouth.
It was too early yet for the work to have begun in the dock. The
water gleamed placidly, no movement anywhere on the long straight
lines of the quays, no one about to be seen except the few dock
hands busy alongside the Ferndale, knowing their work, mostly silent
or exchanging a few words in low tones as if they, too, had been
aware of that lady 'who mustn't be disturbed.' The Ferndale was the
only ship to leave that tide. The others seemed still asleep,
without a sound, and only here and there a figure, coming up on the
forecastle, leaned on the rail to watch the proceedings idly.
Chance |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: if he groped for it, for it is in no wise lost among the
throng of the others, but is far the first; for this bout
then take heart: not one of the Phaeacians shall attain
thereunto or overpass it.'
So spake she; and the steadfast goodly Odysseus rejoiced
and was glad, for that he saw a true friend in the lists.
Then with a lighter heart he spake amid the Phaeacians:
'Now reach ye this throw, young men, if ye may; and soon,
methinks, will I cast another after it, as far or yet
further. And whomsoever of the rest his heart and spirit
stir thereto, hither let him come and try the issue with
The Odyssey |
