| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: When he had finished singing he slowly rose to his great height, showing a
commanding figure. Slowly his features lost their stern pride, his face
softened, and his dark eyes, gazing straight into the gloom of the forest,
bespoke a superhuman vision.
"Wingenund has been a great chief. He has crossed his last trail. The deeds of
Wingenund will be told in the wigwams of the Lenape," said the chief in a loud
voice, and then sank back into the arms of his comrades. They laid him gently
down.
A convulsive shudder shook the stricken warrior's frame. Then, starting up he
straightened out his long arm and clutched wildly at the air with his sinewy
fingers as if to grasp and hold the life that was escaping him.
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: croakers, that be only fit to be turned into yellow-hammers up to
Dartymoor, and sit on a tor all day, and cry 'Very little bit of
bread, and no chee-e-ese!' Marry, sneak-up! say I again."
"And what," said Drake, "would have kept me, if I'd let 'em, from
ever sailing round the world, but these same croakers? I hanged my
best friend for croaking, John Hawkins, may God forgive me if I was
wrong, and I threatened a week after to hang thirty more; and I'd
have done it, too, if they hadn't clapped tompions into their
muzzles pretty fast."
"You'm right, Frank. My old father always told me--and old King
Hal (bless his memory!) would take his counsel among a thousand;--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: own interests! They knew how to lay hold on what they wanted, and to get
it established! They were men of the right sort! and hence it is that our
privileges are so dearly defined, our liberties so well secured.
Soest. What are you saying about our liberties?
All. Our liberties! our privileges! Tell us about our privileges.
Vansen. All the provinces have their peculiar advantages, but we of
Brabant are the most splendidly provided for. I have read it all.
Soest. Say on.
Jetter. Let us hear.
A Citizen. Pray do.
Vansen. First, it stands written:--The Duke of Brabant shall be to us a
Egmont |
