| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: cheerful plotter. In which event--well, that was a contingency
that would certainly prove embarrassing to the ranger. It might
indeed turn out to be a good deal more than embarrassing in the
end. The thing that he had done would bear a plain name if the
Megales faction won the day--and the punishment for it would be
easy to guess. But it was not of himself that O'Connor was
thinking. He had been in tight places before and squeezed safely
out. But his little friend, the one he loved better than his
life, must somehow be extricated, no matter how the cards fell.
The ranger was taken at once before General Carlo, the ranking
army officer at Chihuahua, and, after a sharp preliminary
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: now turned to the question of investing my fortune. Just round the corner
from our office was the firm of Blake and Beverly, Stocks and Bonds.
Thither my steps began frequently to turn. Mr. Beverly had business which
brought him every week to the room of our president; and so having a sort
of acquaintance with him, I felt it easier to consult him than to seek
any other among the brokers, to which class I was a well nigh total
stranger. He very kindly consented to be my adviser. I was well pleased
to find how much I had underrated the interest-bearing capacity of my
windfall. 'Four per cent!' he cried, when I told him this was the extent
of my expectations. 'Why, you're talking like a trustee.' And then seeing
that his meaning was beyond me, he explained in his bluff, humorous
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'And I fled from you when I feared you, and my Lord granted me
judgment, and made me one of His messengers; and this is the favour
thou hast obliged me with, that thou hast enslaved the children of
Israel!'
Said Pharaoh, 'Who is the Lord of the worlds? Said he, 'The Lord
of the heavens and the earth and what is between the two, if ye are
but sure.'
Said he to those about him, 'Do ye not listen?' Said he, 'Your
Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore!'
Said he, 'Verily, your apostle who is sent to you is surely mad!'
Said he, 'The Lord of the east and of the west, and of what is
The Koran |
