| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: Greaser ran around them with something in his hand that glittered in the
firelight. Stockton dived for Dick's legs and upset him. They went down
together, and the Mexican leaped on them, waving the bright thing high over
his head.
I bounded forward, and, grasping his wrist with both hands, I wrenched his
arm with all my might. Some one struck me over the head. I saw a million
darting points of light--then all went black.
When I opened my eyes the sun was shining. I had a queer, numb feeling all
over, and my head hurt terribly. Everything about me was hazy. I did not
know where I was. After a little I struggled to sit up, and with great
difficulty managed it. My hands were tied. Then it all came back to me.
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: the committee to turn the job over to me.
Otherwise I'd never have got anything good
so early. MacKeller was an old friend of
Mrs. Pemberton, Winifred's aunt. He had
mentioned me to her, so when I went to
Allway she asked me to come to see her.
She was a wonderful old lady."
"Like her niece?" Wilson queried.
Bartley laughed. "She had been very
handsome, but not in Winifred's way.
When I knew her she was little and fragile,
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: AND HOW LITTLE GLUCK HAD AN INTERVIEW
WITH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER
Southwest Wind, Esquire, was as good as his word. After the
momentous visit above related, he entered the Treasure Valley no
more; and, what was worse, he had so much influence with his
relations, the West Winds in general, and used it so effectually,
that they all adopted a similar line of conduct. So no rain fell
in the valley from one year's end to another. Though everything
remained green and flourishing in the plains below, the inheritance
of the three brothers was a desert. What had once been the richest
soil in the kingdom became a shifting heap of red sand, and the
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