| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: over the sharp lava, always a sentinel ram espied him before he
got within range. The only method of attack that he found successful
was to locate sheep with his glass, work round to windward of
them, and then, getting behind a ridge or buttress, crawl like a
lizard to a vantage point. He failed often. The stalk called
forth all that was in him of endurance, cunning, speed.
As the days grew hotter he hunted in the early morning
hours and a while before the sun went down. More than one night
he lay out on the lava, with the great stars close overhead and
the immense void all beneath him. This pursuit he learned to love.
Upon those scarred and blasted slopes the wild spirit that was in
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: going to sack him for kicking his father. He said his father had
kicked him until he was big enough to kick back. Patsy begged him
off. I asked that man what it felt like the first time he kicked his
father, and found that it was just like kicking any other man. He
laughed and said that it was the old man that knew what it felt like.
Think of that, Summerhays! think of that!
HYPATIA. I havnt kicked you, papa.
TARLETON. Youve kicked me harder than Bill Burt ever kicked.
LORD SUMMERHAYS. It's no use, Tarleton. Spare yourself. Do you
seriously expect these young people, at their age, to sympathize with
what this gentleman calls your paternal sentimentality?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: An olive-leaf he brings, pacifick sign:
Anon dry ground appears, and from his ark
The ancient sire descends, with all his train;
Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout,
Grateful to Heaven, over his head beholds
A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow
Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay,
Betokening peace from God, and covenant new.
Whereat the heart of Adam, erst so sad,
Greatly rejoiced; and thus his joy broke forth.
O thou, who future things canst represent
Paradise Lost |
