| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: was opening the paper with a tremendous expenditure of energy.
"Here it is. Listen." He read rapidly aloud:
"The Pittsburg police have sent to Baltimore two detectives who are
looking up the survivors of the ill-fated Washington Flier. It has
transpired that Simon Harrington, the Wood Street merchant of that
city, was not killed in the wreck, but was murdered in his berth
the night preceding the accident. Shortly before the collision,
John Flanders, the conductor of the Flier, sent this telegram to the
chief of police:
"'Body of Simon Harrington found stabbed in his berth, lower ten,
Ontario, at six-thirty this morning.
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli's ear; and it was a little time before the boy answered.
"It is to pull the very whiskers of Death, but--Kaa, thou art,
indeed, the wisest of all the Jungle."
"So many have said. Look now, if the dhole follow thee----"
"As surely they will follow. Ho! ho! I have many little thorns
under my tongue to prick into their hides."
"If they follow thee hot and blind, looking only at thy
shoulders, those who do not die up above will take water either
here or lower down, for the Little People will rise up and cover
them. Now the Waingunga is hungry water, and they will have no
Kaa to hold them, but will go down, such as live, to the
The Second Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: believe herself really alive and awake, and the belief that
her reason was this time not deceived made her shudder. The
pressure she felt was evidently intended to arrest her arm,
and she slowly withdrew it. Then the figure, from whom she
could not detach her eyes, and who appeared more protecting
than menacing, took the glass, and walking towards the
night-light held it up, as if to test its transparency. This
did not seem sufficient; the man, or rather the ghost -- for
he trod so softly that no sound was heard -- then poured out
about a spoonful into the glass, and drank it. Valentine
witnessed this scene with a sentiment of stupefaction. Every
The Count of Monte Cristo |
