| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: I see your honour is addressed to talk;
Pray pardon me, I am sent for to the king,
And do not know the business yet my self.
So fare you well, for I must needs be gone.
[Exit all the train.]
BEDFORD.
You must; well, what remedy?
I fear too soon you must be gone indeed.
The king hath business, but little doest thou know,
Whose busy for thy life: thou thinks not so.
[Enter Cromwell and the train again.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: THE CASE OF THE POOL OF BLOOD IN THE PASTOR'S STUDY
by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner
I
The sun rose slowly over the great bulk of the Carpathian mountains
lying along the horizon, weird giant shapes in the early morning
mist. It was still very quiet in the village. A cock crowed here
and there, and swallows flew chirping close to the ground, darting
swiftly about preparing for their higher flight. Janci the shepherd,
apparently the only human being already up, stood beside the brook
at the point where the old bridge spans the streamlet, still
turbulent from the mountain floods. Janci was cutting willows to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tell the people what the monkeys say. And, although it is hard
to believe, I have learned that this is so, for I have lived here
among them for sixty years in the palace of their king.
"They brought me, as they brought you, directly to the pal-
ace. The Arabian chief was taken elsewhere. I never knew
what became of him. Ago XXV was king then. I have seen
many kings since that day. He was a terrible man; but then,
they are all terrible."
"What is the matter with them?" asked the girl.
"They are a race of maniacs," replied the old woman. "Had
you not guessed it? Among them are excellent craftsmen and
Tarzan the Untamed |
