| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: events I did not expect the absurd developments he
sprung upon me no later than the break of the very
next day.
I remember only that there was, on that evening,
enough point in his behaviour to make me, after he
had fled, wonder audibly what he might mean. To
this Hermann, crossing his legs with a swing and
settling himself viciously away from me in his chair,
said: "That fellow don't know himself what he
means."
There might have been some insight in such a
Falk |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: but the worst of it was that I knew I could not endure the
bitter cold, almost naked as I was, and that I would perish
before ever I could overtake Thurid and Dejah Thoris.
To be thus blocked by nature, who had had all the arts and
wiles of cunning man pitted against him, seemed a cruel fate,
and as I staggered back into the warmth of the tunnel's end
I was as near hopelessness as I ever have been.
I had by no means given up my intention of continuing the
pursuit, for if needs be I would go ahead though I perished ere
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: shoulder.
"Do you mind if I look at things?" she asked. "It's so dear and
sweet and old and different from our New York homes."
"Look all you want to, dearie," said Grandma Orde.
After a moment she passed into the dining-room. Here Orde found
her, her hands linked in front of her.
"Oh, it is so quaint and delightful," she exhaled slowly. "This
dear, dear old house with its low ceilings and its queer haphazard
lines, and its deep windows, and its old pictures, and queer
unexpected things that take your breath away."
"It is one of the oldest houses in town," said Orde, "and I suppose
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