| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: looked upon her champion she saw a lithe, muscular,
brown-haired youth whose clear eyes and perfect fig-
ure, unconcealed by either bassinet or hauberk, re-
flected the clean, athletic life of the trained fighting
man.
Upon his face hovered a faint, cold smile of haughty
pride as the sword arm, displaying its mighty strength
and skill in every move, played with the sweating,
puffing, steel-clad enemy who hacked and hewed so
futilely before him. For all the din of clashing blades
and rattling armor, neither of the contestants had in-
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: H. G. Wells has asked all scholars to unite in writing a "Bible
of the New Education." I am no scholar, but if Wells will take
suggestions from an iron puddler, I offer him these random
thoughts.
This generation is rich because the preceding generation stored
up lots of capital. We are living in the houses and using the
railroads that our fathers built by working overtime.
When labor loafs on the job it makes itself poor. We are not
building fast enough to keep ourselves housed. Were it not for
the houses our fathers built this generation would be out-of-
doors right now, with no roof but the sky.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: [NED paces grimly up and down, now and again fiercely twisting his
moustache.]
LORETTA. [Face buried, sobbing and crying all the time.]
I don't want to leave Daisy! I don't want to leave Daisy! What
shall I do? What shall I do? How was I to know? He didn't tell
me. Nobody else ever kissed me. [NED stops curiously to listen.
As he listens his face brightens.] I never dreamed a kiss could
be so terrible . . . until . . . until he told me. He only told
me this morning.
NED. [Abruptly.] Is that what you are crying about?
LORETTA. [Reluctantly.] N-no.
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