| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: descent a current of cold air, was congealed into a hail-stone.
This struck the Unworthy Man on the head and set him rubbing that
bruised organ vigorously with one hand while vainly attempting to
expand an umbrella with the other.
Thereat the Angel of Compassion did most shamelessly and wickedly
laugh.
The City of Political Distinction
JAMRACH the Rich, being anxious to reach the City of Political
Distinction before nightfall, arrived at a fork of the road and was
undecided which branch to follow; so he consulted a Wise-Looking
Person who sat by the wayside.
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: alone hurtling through the jungle. Bearded and gray was
Manu, the monkey, and to his dim old eyes came the fire of
recollection of those days when Tarzan of the Apes had ruled
supreme, Lord of the Jungle, over all the myriad life that trod
the matted vegetation between the boles of the great trees,
or flew or swung or climbed in the leafy fastness upward
to the very apex of the loftiest terraces.
And Numa, the lion, lying up for the day close beside last
night's successful kill, blinked his yellow-green eyes and
twitched his tawny tail as he caught the scent spoor of his
ancient enemy.
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: Perhaps others. Come. Mary."
Mary was very handsome, the handsomest woman, she felt in a moment,
she had ever seen--or perhaps it was only Cissy. Perhaps it was
both, for she had seen stranger things than that--ladies wiring to
different persons under different names. She had seen all sorts of
things and pieced together all sorts of mysteries. There had once
been one--not long before--who, without winking, sent off five over
five different signatures. Perhaps these represented five
different friends who had asked her--all women, just as perhaps now
Mary and Cissy, or one or other of them, were wiring by deputy.
Sometimes she put in too much--too much of her own sense; sometimes
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