| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: was like an arrow shot from the bow. His life
poured itself out along the road before him as he
rode to the Shabata farm.
When Emil alighted at the Shabatas' gate,
his horse was in a lather. He tied her in the
stable and hurried to the house. It was empty.
She might be at Mrs. Hiller's or with Alexan-
dra. But anything that reminded him of her
would be enough, the orchard, the mulberry
tree. . . When he reached the orchard the sun
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: to me, "one of your most intelligent navigators. He is the Captain
Cook of you Frenchmen. Unfortunate man of science, after having
braved the icebergs of the South Pole, the coral reefs of Oceania,
the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train!
If this energetic man could have reflected during the last moments
of his life, what must have been uppermost in his last thoughts,
do you suppose?"
So speaking, Captain Nemo seemed moved, and his emotion
gave me a better opinion of him. Then, chart in hand,
we reviewed the travels of the French navigator, his voyages
of circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: lie awake in his berth at night, tossing this way and that
without sleep--not that he wanted to sleep if he could, but would
rather lie so awake thinking about her and staring into the
darkness!
Poor fool! He might have known that the end must come to such a
fool's paradise before very long. For who was he to look up to
Sir John Malyoe's granddaughter, he, the supercargo of a merchant
ship, and she the granddaughter of a baronet.
Nevertheless, things went along very smooth and pleasant, until
one evening, when all came of a sudden to an end. At that time he
and the young lady had been standing for a long while together,
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
