| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived,
Cat-footed through the town and half in dread
To hear my father's clamour at our backs
With Ho! from some bay-window shake the night;
But all was quiet: from the bastioned walls
Like threaded spiders, one by one, we dropt,
And flying reached the frontier: then we crost
To a livelier land; and so by tilth and grange,
And vines, and blowing bosks of wilderness,
We gained the mother city thick with towers,
And in the imperial palace found the king.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'DE GARCIA!'
He staggered back at the sound of my voice, like a man struck by a
shot, then stared at me, rubbed his eyes with his hand, and stared
again. Now at length he knew me through my paint.
'Mother of God!' he gasped, 'it is that knave Thomas Wingfield, AND
I HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE!'
By this time my senses had come back to me, and knowing all my
folly, I turned seeking escape. But de Garcia had no mind to
suffer this. Lifting his sword, he sprang at me with a beastlike
scream of rage and hate. Swiftly as thought I slipped round the
stone of sacrifice and after me came the uplifted sword of my
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: By a chance, she got a position in an establishment where they
made collars and cuffs. She received a stool and a machine in a
room where sat twenty girls of various shades of yellow discontent.
She perched on the stool and treadled at her machine all day,
turning out collars, the name of whose brand could be noted for its
irrelevancy to anything in connection with collars. At night she
returned home to her mother.
Jimmie grew large enough to take the vague position of head of
the family. As incumbent of that office, he stumbled up-stairs
late at night, as his father had done before him. He reeled about
the room, swearing at his relations, or went to sleep on the floor.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
