| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: lush and dank, where only occasionally a wood-pigeon cooed or snow-
white cockatoos laughed harshly in laborious flight.
Here, in the mid-morning, the first casualty occurred. Binu
Charley had dropped behind for a time, and Koogoo, the Poonga-
Poonga man who had boasted that he would eat the bushmen, was in
the lead. Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo
throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble
forward, and sink down on his hands and knees. Between his naked
shoulders, low down and to the left, appeared the bone-barbed head
of an arrow. He had been shot through and through. Cocked rifles
swept the bush with nervous apprehension. But there was no rustle,
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: and encompassed him, and evil nettles stung him, and the thistle
pierced him with her daggers, so that he was in sore distress. Nor
could he anywhere find the piece of white gold of which the
Magician had spoken, though he sought for it from morn to noon, and
from noon to sunset. And at sunset he set his face towards home,
weeping bitterly, for he knew what fate was in store for him.
But when he had reached the outskirts of the wood, he heard from a
thicket a cry as of some one in pain. And forgetting his own
sorrow he ran back to the place, and saw there a little Hare caught
in a trap that some hunter had set for it.
And the Star-Child had pity on it, and released it, and said to it,
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Friday night to see Miss Innes, didn't you? And came to work
here Saturday morning?"
For some unexplained reason Thomas looked relieved.
"Yas, sah," he said. "You see it were like this: When Mistah
Armstrong and the fam'ly went away, Mis' Watson an' me, we was
lef' in charge till the place was rented. Mis' Watson, she've
bin here a good while, an' she warn' skeery. So she slep' in the
house. I'd bin havin' tokens--I tol' Mis' Innes some of 'em--an'
I slep' in the lodge. Then one day Mis' Watson, she came to me
an' she sez, sez she, 'Thomas, you'll hev to sleep up in the
big house. I'm too nervous to do it any more.' But I jes'
The Circular Staircase |
