| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: young boy, after all."
"No!" denied Mick, his eyes two excited interrogation-points.
"You can't stuff me with any such fairy-tale, me lad."
"All right. Wait and see," suggested the ranger easily. "Have a
smoke while you're falling out of love."
"You young limb, I want you to tell me all about it this very
minute, before I punch holes in yez."
Bucky lit his cigar, leaned back, and began to tell the story of
Frank Hardman and the knife-thrower. Only one thing he omitted to
tell, and that was the conviction that had come home to him a few
moments ago that his little comrade was no boy, but a woman.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: knew the person he resembles."
"I really think, dear M. Baisemeaux, that it can be nothing
more than a resemblance of your own creation."
"Upon my honor, it is not so."
"Stay," continued Aramis, "I have seen many persons very
like the one we are speaking of; but, out of respect, no one
ever said anything about it."
"Very likely; because there is resemblance and resemblance.
This is a striking one, and, if you were to see him, you
would admit it to be so."
"If I were to see him, indeed," said Aramis, in an
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the creature clapped both hands to its face and sank to the
ground while Bradley clambered quickly the remaining distance to
the roof, though no sooner did he reach the top of the ladder
than a great flapping of wings beneath him warned him that the
Wieroos were rising after him. A moment later they swarmed about
his head as he ran for the apartment in which he had spent the
early hours of the morning after his arrival.
It was but a short distance from the top of the ladder to the
doorway, and Bradley had almost reached his goal when the door
flew open and Fosh-bal-soj stepped out. Immediately the pursuing
Wieroos demanded punishment of the jaal-lu who had so
Out of Time's Abyss |
