| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: prudent men know well that England's hour is come, and that the
bells which will call all Christendom to church upon the morrow
morn, will be either the death-knell or the triumphal peal of the
Reformed faith throughout the world.
A solemn day that Sabbath must have been in country and in town.
And many a light-hearted coward, doubtless, who had scoffed (as
many did) at the notion of the Armada's coming, because he dare not
face the thought, gave himself up to abject fear, "as he now
plainly saw and heard that of which before he would not be
persuaded." And many a brave man, too, as he knelt beside his wife
and daughters, felt his heart sink to the very pavement, at the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: grounds, glowing with tulips and heady hyacinths in
spring, with roses in June, blazing with salvia and golden-
glow and asters in autumn. There was something apologetic
about these grounds.
This, then, was the environment that Fanny Brandeis had
chosen. On the face of things you would have said she had
chosen well. The inspiration of the roller skates had not
been merely a lucky flash. That idea had been part of the
consistent whole. Her mind was her mother's mind raised to
the nth power, and enhanced by the genius she was trying
to crush. Refusing to die, it found expression in a hundred
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: Yaqui, however, found ground that his horse covered at a swift walk.
But there was only an hour, perhaps, of this comparatively easy
going. Then the Yaqui led them into a zone of craters. The top of
the earth seemed to have been blown out in holes from a few rods
in width to large craters, some shallow, others deep, and all red
as fire. Yaqui circled close to abysses which yawned sheer from
a level surface, and he appeared always to be turning upon his
course to avoid them.
The plateau had now a considerable dip to the west. Gale marked
the slow heave and ripple of the ocean of lava to the south, where
high, rounded peaks marked the center of this volcanic region. The
Desert Gold |
