| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: thought the best way of getting a little quiet was to take Nana
to the nursery for a moment, but in custody of course.
"There, you suspicious brute," she said, not sorry that Nana
was in disgrace. "They are perfectly safe, aren't they? Every
one of the little angels sound asleep in bed. Listen to their
gentle breathing."
Here Michael, encouraged by his success, breathed so loudly
that they were nearly detected. Nana knew that kind of
breathing, and she tried to drag herself out of Liza's clutches.
But Liza was dense. "No more of it, Nana," she said sternly,
pulling her out of the room. "I warn you if bark again I shall
Peter Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: The rising sun found him passing over a big city, which he knew
to be Boston.
He did not stop. The machine was so little to be depended upon that
he dared make no halt. But he was obliged to alter the direction from
northwest to west, and the result of this slight change was so great a
reduction in speed that it was mid-day before he saw beneath him the
familiar village in which he lived.
Carefully marking the location of his father's house, he came to a
stop directly over it, and a few moments later he managed to land upon
the exact spot in the back yard whence he had taken his first
successful flight.
The Master Key |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: that little time, when the ancient keep was to them a small world
unknown to any but themselves--a world far away above all the
dull matters of every-day life--they talked of many things that
might else never have been known to one another. Mostly they
spoke the crude romantic thoughts and desires of boyhood's
time--chaff thrown to the wind, in which, however, lay a few
stray seeds, fated to fall to good earth, and to ripen to
fruition in manhood's day.
In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of
his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature,
and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a
Men of Iron |
