| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: help him.
"The cabin's full of b'ars!" he yelled.
At his cry the bear leaped out of the cloud of dust, and shot across the
threshold like black lightning. In his onslaught upon Greaser he had broken
his halter. Herky-Jerky stood directly in his path. I caught only a
glimpse, but it served to show that Herky was badly scared. The cub dove at
Herky, under him, straight between his legs like a greased pig, and,
spilling him all over the trail, sped on out of sight. Herky raised
himself, and then he sat there, red as a lobster, and bawled curses while
he made his huge revolver spurt flame on flame.
I could not see the other men, but their uproarious mirth could have been
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
Bathsheba was not conscious of guile in this matter.
Though in one sense a woman of the world, it was, after
all, that world of daylight coteries and green carpets
wherein cattle form the passing crowd and winds the
busy hum; where a quiet family of rabbits or hares lives
on the other side of your party-wall, where your neigh-
bour is everybody in the tything, and where calculation
formulated self-indulgence of bad, nothing at all. Had
her utmost thoughts in this direction been distinctly
worded (and by herself they never were), they would
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: already - this Wilding lurked, an outlaw, whom any might shoot down at
sight. Sir Rowland swore he would not rest until he knew that Anthony
Wilding cumbered the earth no more - leastways, not the surface of it.
He went forth to seek Newlington. The merchant had sent his message to
the rebel King, and had word in answer that His Majesty would be
graciously pleased to sup at Mr. Newlington's at nine o'clock on the
following evening, attended by a few gentlemen of his immediate
following. Sir Rowland received the news with satisfaction, and sighed
to think that Mr. Wilding - still absent, Heaven knew where - would not
be of the party. It was reported that on the Monday Monmouth was to
march to Gloucester, hoping there to be joined by his Cheshire friends,
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