| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: the fields, his harness hanging to him, wolves at his heels.
But the groom's movement had given Pavel an idea.
They were within a few miles of their village now.
The only sledge left out of six was not very far behind them,
and Pavel's middle horse was failing. Beside a frozen pond
something happened to the other sledge; Peter saw it plainly.
Three big wolves got abreast of the horses, and the horses
went crazy. They tried to jump over each other, got tangled
up in the harness, and overturned the sledge.
When the shrieking behind them died away, Pavel realized
that he was alone upon the familiar road. `They still come?'
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Whose hallow'd earth Anchises' bones contains,
And where a prince of Trojan lineage reigns?"
The course resolv'd, before the western wind
They scud amain, and make the port assign'd.
Meantime Acestes, from a lofty stand,
Beheld the fleet descending on the land;
And, not unmindful of his ancient race,
Down from the cliff he ran with eager pace,
And held the hero in a strict embrace.
Of a rough Libyan bear the spoils he wore,
And either hand a pointed jav'lin bore.
Aeneid |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: them, for the last thirty years, by their truest friends--often by
kinsmen of their own. It may lead them to ask themselves why, in a
world which is governed by a just God, such great power as is
palpably theirs at present is entrusted to them, save that they may
do more work, and not less, than other men, under the penalties
pronounced against those to whom much is given, and of whom much is
required. It may lead them to discover that they are in a world
where it is not safe to sit under the tree, and let the ripe fruit
drop into your mouth; where the "competition of species" works with
ruthless energy among all ranks of being, from kings upon their
thrones to the weeds upon the waste; where "he that is not hammer,
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