| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: As feminine in her degree,
Who has been my unkind bombarder
Year after year, in grief and glee,
Year after year, with oaken tree;
And yet betweenwhiles my laudator
In terms astonishing to me -
To the Right Reverend The Spectator
I here, a humble dedicator,
Bring the last apples from my tree.
In tones of love, in tones of warning,
She hailed me through my brief career;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Then do as your king commands," said the American
sharply.
Joseph turned with dubious mutterings and approached
the tiled panel at the left of the fireplace. Here he fumbled
about for a moment until his fingers found the hidden catch
that held the cunningly devised door in place. An instant
later the panel swung inward before his touch, and stand-
ing to one side, the old fellow bowed low as he ushered
Barney into the Stygian darkness of the space beyond their
vision.
Joseph halted the young man just within the doorway,
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: of us grow numb? You have held out. But will it be for long? Are you
never to save any souls of your own kind? Are not twenty years of
mesclados enough? No, no!" finished young Gaston, hot with his unforeseen
eloquence; "I should ride down some morning and take the barkentine."
Padre Ignacio was silent for a space.
"I have not offended you?" asked the young man.
"No. Anything but that. You are surprised that I should--choose--to stay
here. Perhaps you may have wondered how I came to be here at all?"
"I had not intended any impertinent--"
"Oh no. Put such an idea out of your head, my son. You may remember that
I was going to make you a confession about my operas. Let us sit down in
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