| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: she took stock of the camp ground and what was going on. At second glance
the place had a certain attraction difficult for her to define. She could
see far, and the view north toward those strange gray-colored symmetrical
hills was one that fascinated while it repelled her. Near at hand the
ground sloped down to a large rock-bound lake, perhaps a mile in
circumference. In the distance, along the shore she saw a white conical
tent, and blue smoke, and moving gray objects she took for sheep.
The men unpacked and unsaddled the horses, and, hobbling their forefeet
together, turned them loose. Twilight had fallen and each man appeared to
be briskly set upon his own task. Glenn was cutting around the foot of a
thickly branched cedar where, he told Carley, he would make a bed for her
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: As soon as the land was marked out, the farmers put in possession
of it, and the money given them, they should be obliged to go to
work, in order to their settlement. Suppose it, then, to be in the
spring of the year, when such work was most proper. First, all
hands would be required to fence and part off the land, and clear
it of the timber or bushes, or whatever else was upon it which
required to be removed. The first thing, therefore, which the
farmer would do would be to single out from the rest of their
number every one three servants--that is to say, two men and a
maid; less could not answer the preparations they would be obliged
to make, and yet work hard themselves also. By the help of these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: And had we made him an angel, we should have made him as a man
too; and we would have made perplexing for them that which they deem
perplexing now.
There have been prophets before thee mocked at, but that encompassed
them which the scoffers among them mocked at.
Say, 'Go about in the earth, then wilt thou see how has been the end
of those who called them liars.'
Say, 'Whose is what is in the heavens and the earth?
Say, 'God's, who has imposed mercy on himself.' He will surely
gather you together for the resurrection day. There is no doubt in
that, but those who waste their souls will not believe.
The Koran |
