| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: that she remained musing.
"No--I think not."
"Then tell me that I am to be gone."
"Why? Cannot you go without?"
"I may consult my own feelings only, if left to myself."
"Well, if you do, what then? Do you suppose you'll be in my way?"
"I feared it might be so."
"Then fear no more. But good-night. Come to-morrow and see if I
am going on right. This renewal of acquaintance touches me. I
have already a friendship for you."
"If it depends upon myself it shall last forever."
The Woodlanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Coming toward him down the meadow was an aeroplane
piloted by the black Usanga and in the seat behind the pilot
was the white girl, Bertha Kircher. How it befell that the
ignorant savage could operate the plane, Tarzan could not
guess nor had he time in which to speculate upon the subject.
His knowledge of Usanga, together with the position of the
white man, told him that the black sergeant was attempting
to carry off the white girl. Why he should be doing this when
he had her in his power and had also captured and secured
the only creature in the jungle who might wish to defend her
in so far as the black could know, Tarzan could not guess, for
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: had been alike the joy and labor of the unfallen parents of the
race. Was this garden, then, the Eden of the present world? And
this man, with such a perception of harm in what his own hands
caused to grow,--was he the Adam?
The distrustful gardener, while plucking away the dead leaves or
pruning the too luxuriant growth of the shrubs, defended his
hands with a pair of thick gloves. Nor were these his only armor.
When, in his walk through the garden, he came to the magnificent
plant that hung its purple gems beside the marble fountain, he
placed a kind of mask over his mouth and nostrils, as if all this
beauty did but conceal a deadlier malice; but, finding his task
Mosses From An Old Manse |
