| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: tearing up from beneath the straining foot-grips, and the wire screen bulge
once or twice as their bodies hurled against it. That was all, and after a
time even that ceased. There were no more flashes, and the shadow had become
long and stationary; and I remembered their set boyish faces when they clung
to the roots in the deep coolness of the pool.
They found me an hour afterward. Some inkling of what had happened got to the
servants and they quitted the Tichlorne service in a body. Gaffer Bedshaw
never recovered from the second shock he received, and is confined in a
madhouse, hopelessly incurable. The secrets of their marvellous discoveries
died with Paul and Lloyd, both laboratories being destroyed by grief-stricken
relatives. As for myself, I no longer care for chemical research, and science
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: on I should be called upon to reason out many perplexing things. I did not
want to make any mistakes. So I tied Hal and the pack-pony to a bush
fringing the trail, and set off through the forest.
It dawned upon me presently that the campfire was much farther away than it
appeared. Often it went out of sight behind trees. By degrees it grew
larger and larger. Then I slowed down and approached more cautiously. Once
when the trees obscured it I traveled some distance without getting a good
view of it. Passing down into a little hollow I lost it again. When I
climbed out I hauled up short with a sharp catch of my breath. There were
several figures moving around the campfire. I had stumbled on a camp that
surely was not Dick Leslie's.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: they be to this hunted, driven girl? Gale's heart swelled. He
was alone with her. He had no weapon, no money, no food, no drink,
no covering, nothing except his two hands. He had absolutely no
knowledge of the desert, of the direction or whereabouts of the
boundary line between the republics; he did not know where to find
the railroad, or any road or trail, or whether or not there were
towns near or far. It was a critical, desperate situation. He
thought first of the girl, and groaned in spirit, prayed that it
would be given him to save her. When he remembered himself it was
with the stunning consciousness that he could conceive of no
situation which he would have exchanged for this one--where fortune
Desert Gold |
