| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: the dance.
X. WHERE FANCY WAS BRED
Two camps in the open, and the Virginian's Monte horse, untired,
brought him to the Swintons' in good time for the barbecue. The
horse received good food at length, while his rider was welcomed
with good whiskey. GOOD whiskey--for had not steers jumped to
seventy-five?
Inside the Goose Egg kitchen many small delicacies were
preparing, and a steer was roasting whole outside. The bed of
flame under it showed steadily brighter against the dusk that was
beginning to veil the lowlands. The busy hosts went and came,
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: the twinkling of an eye; old George the Second is back again, and
the elder Pitt is coming into power, and General Wolfe is a fine,
promising young man, and over the Channel they are pulling the
Sieur Damiens to pieces with wild horses, and across the Atlantic
the Indians are tomahawking Hirams and Jonathans and Jonases at
Fort William Henry; all the dead people who have been in the dust
so long - even to the stout-armed cook that made the pastry - are
alive again; the planet unwinds a hundred of its luminous coils,
and the precession of the equinoxes is retraced on the dial of
heaven! And all this for a bit of pie-crust!
- I will thank you for that pie, - said the provoking young fellow
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: Now when Schwartz had heard that Hans had stolen the holy
water, he thought to himself that such a proceeding might not be
considered altogether correct by the King of the Golden River, and
determined to manage matters better. So he took some more of
Gluck's money and went to a bad priest, who gave him some holy water
very readily for it. Then Schwartz was sure it was all quite right.
So Schwartz got up early in the morning before the sun rose, and
took some bread and wine in a basket, and put his holy water in a
flask, and set off for the mountains. Like his brother he was much
surprised at the sight of the glacier and had great difficulty in
crossing it, even after leaving his basket behind him. The day was
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