| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Then too smooth reeds and shafts of whittled wand,
And ashen poles and sturdy forks to shape,
Whereby supported they may learn to mount,
Laugh at the gales, and through the elm-tops win
From story up to story.
Now while yet
The leaves are in their first fresh infant growth,
Forbear their frailty, and while yet the bough
Shoots joyfully toward heaven, with loosened rein
Launched on the void, assail it not as yet
With keen-edged sickle, but let the leaves alone
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: playing about his lips. It was to be the last of that smile,
however. Billy met the rush with his old familiar crouch, and
stopped his man with a straight to the body.
Cassidy saw it and almost smiled. He didn't think that Billy
could come back--but at least he was fighting for a minute in
his old form.
The surprised "hope" rushed in to punish his presuming
foe. The crowd was silent. Billy ducked beneath a vicious left
swing and put a right to the side of the "hope's" head that sent
the man to his knees. Then came the gong.
In the third round Billy fought carefully. He had made up
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: her chair again, while her eyes snapped defiance through the tears
that hung on their lashes.
A faint gleam twinkled up in Muller's eyes, and he did not look at
his chief. Doctor von Riedau's own face glowed in a slowly mounting
flush, and his eyes drooped in a moment of conscious embarrassment
at some recollection, the sting of which was evidently made worse
by Muller's presence. But Commissioner von Riedau had brains enough
to acknowledge his mistakes and to learn from them. He looked across
the desk at Miss Graumann. "You are right, Madam, the police have
made that mistake more than once. And a man with a clear record
deserves the benefit of the doubt. We will take up this case.
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