| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: take them to him, and he did.
One August afternoon when the village water-cart had made
the street smell specially townified, they went to look for their
shepherd as usual, and, as usual, Old Jim crawled over the doorstep
and took them in charge. The sun was hot, the dry grass was
very slippery, and the distances were very distant.
'It's Just like the sea,' said Una, when Old Jim halted in the
shade of a lonely flint barn on a bare rise. 'You see where you're
going, and - you go there, and there's nothing between.'
Dan slipped off his shoes. 'When we get home I shall sit in the
woods all day,' he said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "They must have sent forth and carried the dead bowmen
away while we were talking," said the girl.
"It is impossible!" replied Carthoris. "Thousands of
dead lay there upon the field but a moment since. It would
have required many hours to have removed them. The
thing is uncanny."
"I had hoped," said Thuvia, "that we might find an
asylum with these fair-skinned people. Notwithstanding
their valour upon the field of battle, they did not strike
me as a ferocious or warlike people. I had been about
to suggest that we seek entrance to the city, but now I
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: kept out of his way."
"The young ravens have meat given to them," said the stranger, lifting
himself up; "and the lions go down to the streams to drink."
"Ah--yes--" said Peter; "but that's because we can't help it!"
They were silent again for a little while. Then Peter, seeing that the
stranger showed no inclination to speak, said, "Did you hear of the spree
they had up Bulawayo way, hanging those three niggers for spies? I wasn't
there myself, but a fellow who was told me they made the niggers jump down
from the tree and hang themselves; one fellow wouldn't bally jump, till
they gave him a charge of buckshot in the back: and then he caught hold of
a branch with his hands and they had to shoot 'em loose. He didn't like
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