| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: The profuse light cast down by the sun made this living gold, these
russet markings, to burn in a way to give them an indefinable
attraction.
The man and the panther looked at one another with a look full of
meaning; the coquette quivered when she felt her friend stroke her
head; her eyes flashed like lightning--then she shut them tightly.
"She has a soul," he said, looking at the stillness of this queen of
the sands, golden like them, white like them, solitary and burning
like them.
"Well," she said, "I have read your plea in favor of beasts; but how
did two so well adapted to understand each other end?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: GWENDOLEN. [Still standing up.] I may call you Cecily, may I not?
CECILY. With pleasure!
GWENDOLEN. And you will always call me Gwendolen, won't you?
CECILY. If you wish.
GWENDOLEN. Then that is all quite settled, is it not?
CECILY. I hope so. [A pause. They both sit down together.]
GWENDOLEN. Perhaps this might be a favourable opportunity for my
mentioning who I am. My father is Lord Bracknell. You have never
heard of papa, I suppose?
CECILY. I don't think so.
GWENDOLEN. Outside the family circle, papa, I am glad to say, is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: "Oh, Dad!" cried Nell; and she clung to him wistful, frightened,
yet something more.
"Don't mistake me, Nell. You have your own way, generally. You
pull the wool over mother's eyes, and you wind me round your
little finger. But you can't do either with Dick Gale. You're
tender-hearted; you overlook the doings of this hound, Chase.
But when Dick comes back, you just make up your mind to a little
hell in the Chase camp. Oh, he'll find it out. And I sure want to
be round when Dick hands Mr. Radford the same as he handed
Rojas!"
Belding kept a sharp lookout for young Chase, and then, a few days
Desert Gold |
