| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and then, clear cut and distinct before his eyes, he
saw the corpse of the Outlaw of Torn swinging by the
neck from the arm of a wooden gibbet, and beside it
knelt a woman gowned in rich cloth of gold and many
jewels. Her face was averted and her arms were out-
stretched toward the dangling form that swung and
twisted from the grim, gaunt arm. Her figure was
racked with choking sobs of horror-stricken grief. Pres-
ently she staggered to her feet and turned away, bury-
ing her face in her hands; but he saw her features for
an instant then--the woman who openly and alone
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: of hearing him tell those marvellous stories culled from the
crabbed Latin of the old manuscript volumes.
Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room
and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never
known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired
of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay
doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so
often in the merry days of his pagehood.
"I do wonder," said Myles, quaintly, "that thou couldst ever find
the courage to bespeak a young maid, Francis. Never did I do so,
nor ever could. Rather would I face three strong men than one
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: back into place, and at once the line of soldiers tumbled over, fell
flat upon their backs, and lay fluttering upon the ground.
"Hi there!" called one of them; "what do you mean by slamming the
door and blowing us over?"
"I beg your pardon, I'm sure," said the Wizard, regretfully. "I didn't
know you were so delicate."
"We're not delicate!" retorted another soldier, raising his head from
the ground. "We are strong and healthy; but we can't stand draughts."
"May I help you up?" asked Dorothy.
"If you please," replied the end soldier. "But do it gently,
little girl."
The Emerald City of Oz |
