| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather:
Now, Alexandra could in a measure realize
that Marie was, after all, Marie; not merely
a "married woman." Sometimes, when Alex-
andra thought of her, it was with an aching
tenderness. The moment she had reached them
in the orchard that morning, everything was
clear to her. There was something about those
two lying in the grass, something in the way
Marie had settled her cheek on Emil's shoulder,
that told her everything. She wondered then
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Then Tarzan fitted an arrow to his bow, and drawing the
slim shaft far back let drive with all the force of the
tough wood that only he could bend. As the arrow sank
deeply into his side, Numa leaped to his feet with a
roar of mingled rage and pain. He leaped futilely at
the grinning ape-man, tore at the protruding end of the
shaft, and then, springing into the trail, paced back
and forth beneath his tormentor. Again Tarzan loosed a
swift bolt. This time the missile, aimed with care,
lodged in the lion's spine. The great creature halted
in its tracks, and lurched awkwardly forward upon its
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: "You needn't send those men. There will be no packing, because I
am not going to marry you."
"I'm not a bit scared," he answered, and went down the steps.
CHAPTER XXIV
Three days later, Daylight rode to Berkeley in his red car. It
was for the last time, for on the morrow the big machine passed
into another's possession. It had been a strenuous three days,
for his smash had been the biggest the panic had precipitated in
California. The papers had been filled with it, and a great cry
of indignation had gone up from the very men who later found that
Daylight had fully protected their interests. It was these
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