| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: and took considerable time. Before I reached the gray cliff I looked down
over the forest to see the rolling, smoky clouds. We climbed higher and
still higher, till Target reached the cliff and could go no farther.
Leaping off, I tied him securely and bent my efforts to getting around on
top of the cliff. If I had known what a climb it was I should not have
attempted it, but I could not back out with the summit looming over me. It
ran up to a ragged crag. Hot, exhausted, and out of breath, I at last got
there.
As I looked I shouted in surprise. It seemed that the whole of Penetier was
under my feet. The green slope disappeared in murky clouds of smoke. There
were great pillars and huge banks of yellow and long streaks of black, and
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: care what she did. That's how it came about they got to talk
before her openly. For a long time she could not make out what
game they were up to. The new arrivals, not expecting to find a
woman with Bamtz, had been very startled and annoyed at first, she
explained.
"She busied herself in attending to the boy; and nobody looking
into that room would have seen anything suspicious in those two
people exchanging murmurs by the sick-bedside.
"'But now they think I am a better man than Bamtz ever was,' she
said with a faint laugh.
"The child moaned. She went down on her knees, and, bending low,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: The meshes of the net of Heaven are large; far apart, but letting
nothing escape.
74. 1. The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to (try to)
frighten them with death? If the people were always in awe of death,
and I could always seize those who do wrong, and put them to death,
who would dare to do wrong?
2. There is always One who presides over the infliction death. He who
would inflict death in the room of him who so presides over it may be
described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom is it
that he who undertakes the hewing, instead of the great carpenter,
does not cut his own hands!
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