| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: land. This was the narrow neck of the peninsula, and
here the several low hills were a natural obstacle.
Practically isolated from the rest of the world, the
Fire People must have here lived and prospered for a
long time. In fact, I think it was their prosperity
that was responsible for the subsequent migration that
worked such calamity upon the Folk. The Fire People
must have increased in numbers until they pressed
uncomfortably against the bounds of their habitat.
They were expanding, and in the course of their
expanding they drove the Folk before them, and settled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "I understand how difficult it is for you to overlook an insult to me," she
continued earnestly. "But I ask it of you. You are my best friend, almost my
brother, and I promise you that if he ever speaks a word to me again that is
not what it should be I will tell you."
"I reckon I'll let him go, considerin' how set on it you are."
"But remember, Lew, that he is revengeful and you must be on the lookout,"
said Betty gravely as she recalled the malignant gleam in Miller's eyes.
"He's dangerous only like a moccasin snake that hides in the grass."
"Am I an right? Do I look mussed or--or excited--or anything?" asked Betty.
Lewis smiled as she turned round for his benefit. Her hair was a little awry
and the lace at her neck disarranged. The natural bloom had not quite returned
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rapidly toward the same spot from another direction.
They did not see us, nor did they see Juag, whom I
now discovered hiding behind a low bush close to the
verge of the precipice which drops into the sea at this
point. As quickly as possible, without exposing our-
selves too much to the enemy, we hastened forward
that we might reach Juag as quickly as they.
But they noticed him first and immediately charged
him, for one of them had been his guard, and they
had both been sent to search for him, his escape having
been discovered between the time he left the cave
Pellucidar |
