| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: saddle.
"We'll take the side trail," said Stewart, shortly, as he swung
upon the big black. Then he led the way, and the other cowboys
trotted in the rear.
It was only a short distance to the rim of the mesa, and when
Madeline saw the steep trail, narrow and choked with weathered
stone, she felt that her guests would certainly flinch.
"That's a jolly bad course," observed Castleton.
The women appeared to be speechless.
Stewart checked his horse at the deep cut where the trail started
down.
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.
II
Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Dunedin. On Wednesday, March 10, Butler started work, but after
three hours of it relinquished the effort. Bain saw Butler again
in Dunedin on the evening of Saturday, March 13, and made an
appointment to meet him at half-past eight that night. Butler
did not keep the appointment. Bain searched the town for him,
but he was nowhere to be found.
About the same time Butler had some talk with another member of
the Dunedin police force, Inspector Mallard. They discussed the
crimes of Charles Peace and other notable artists of that kind.
Butler remarked to Mallard how easy it would be to destroy all
traces of a murder by fire, and asked the inspector whether if he
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
