| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: along a road that happened to be broken.
The sky was brilliantly blue, and the sunlight on the
glittering white stretches of prairie was almost blinding.
As Antonia said, the whole world was changed by the snow;
we kept looking in vain for familiar landmarks. The deep
arroyo through which Squaw Creek wound was now only a cleft
between snowdrifts--very blue when one looked down into it.
The tree-tops that had been gold all the autumn were dwarfed
and twisted, as if they would never have any life in them again.
The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before,
now stood out a strong, dusky green. The wind had the burning
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: stood up in, and nothing more.
CHAPTER VI
THE FAIR -- THE JOURNEY -- THE FIRE
TWO months passed away. We are brought on to a
day in February, on which was held the yearly statute
or hiring fair in the county-town of Casterbridge.
At one end of the street stood from two to three
hundred blithe and hearty labourers waiting upon Chance
-- all men of the stamp to whom labour suggests nothing
worse than a wrestle with gravitation, and pleasure
nothing better than a renunciation of the same among
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: fifty million whites have died in America from the beginning up to
to-day - make it sixty, if you want to; make it a hundred million -
it's no difference about a few millions one way or t'other. Well,
now, you can see, yourself, that when you come to spread a little
dab of people like that over these hundreds of billions of miles of
American territory here in heaven, it is like scattering a ten-cent
box of homoeopathic pills over the Great Sahara and expecting to
find them again. You can't expect us to amount to anything in
heaven, and we DON'T - now that is the simple fact, and we have got
to do the best we can with it. The learned men from other planets
and other systems come here and hang around a while, when they are
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