| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the fur much rubbed on his head.
"Why don't you pray, old chap?" asked Nekhludoff's driver as he
replaced and straightened his cap. "Are you unbaptized?"
"Who's one to pray to?" asked the old man quickly, in a
determinately aggressive tone.
"To whom? To God, of course," said the driver sarcastically.
"And you just show me where he is, that god." There was something
so serious and firm in the expression of the old man, that the
driver felt that he had to do with a strong-minded man, and was a
bit abashed. And trying not to show this, not to be silenced, and
not to be put to shame before the crowd that was observing them,
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: this case contained salt and pepper, fishing hooks and lines, matches--a
host of little things that a boy who had never been lost might imagine he
would need in an emergency. While thinking and planning I sat on the edge
of the great hole where the spring was. Suddenly I saw a swirl in the
water, and then a splendid spotted fish. It broke water twice. It was two
feet long.
"Dick, there's fish in this hole!" I yelled, eagerly.
"Shouldn't wonder," replied he. "Sure, kid, thet hole's full of trout--
speckled trout," said Herky-Jerky. "But they can't be ketched."
"Why not?" I demanded. I had not caught little trout in the Pennsylvania
hills for nothing. "They eat, don't they? That fish I saw was a whale, and
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale
thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a
hurt deer. The other is Yorkshire bred, and has
twanged his bowstring right oft in merry Sherwood;
he knows each glade and dingle, copse and
high-wood, betwixt this and Richmond.''
``'Tis well,'' said the Prince.---``Goes Waldemar
forth with them?''
``Instantly,'' said Bardon.
``With what attendance?'' asked John, carelessly.
``Broad Thoresby goes with him, and Wetheral,
Ivanhoe |
