| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the two strange men from the club stayed with the body. The
reaction from the shock and strain was tremendous: I was
collapsed--and then Mr. Jarvis asked me a question that brought
back my wandering faculties.
"Where is Halsey?" he asked.
"Halsey!" Suddenly Gertrude's stricken face rose before me the
empty rooms up-stairs. Where was Halsey?
"He was here, wasn't he?" Mr. Jarvis persisted. "He stopped at
the club on his way over."
"I--don't know where he is," I said feebly.
One of the men from the club came in, asked for the telephone,
The Circular Staircase |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Went shuffling through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
That night the empty corridors
Were full of forms of Fear,
And up and down the iron town
Stole feet we could not hear,
And through the bars that hide the stars
White faces seemed to peer.
He lay as one who lies and dreams
In a pleasant meadow-land,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: hands behind her head, with rosy cheeks and arch eyes. Indeed,
she looked rebellious. Certain it was, Dick reflected, that the
young lady had fully recovered the wilful personality which had
lain dormant for a while. Equally certain it seemed that Mercedes's
earnestness was not apparently having the effect it should have had.
Dick was inclined to be rebellious himself. Belding had kept the
rangers in off the line, and therefore Dick had been idle most of
the time, and, though he tried hard, he had been unable to stay
far from Nell's vicinity. He believed she cared for him; but he
could not catch her alone long enough to verify his tormenting
hope. When alone she was as illusive as a shadow, as quick as a
Desert Gold |
