| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: look like picked chickens with their collars off."
At that the collarless man, who until now had been standing on
the top step that led up to the roof, came slowly forward, stepped
languidly over a skylight or two, draped his handkerchief over a
convenient chimney and sat down, hugging his long, lean legs to
him.
"Nice up here, isn't it?" he remarked.
"It was," said Mary Louise.
"Ha!" exploded he, again. Then, "Where's your mirror?" he
demanded.
"Mirror?" echoed Mary Louise.
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sobs of relief broke from the childish lips and his
hands clutched at his deliverer as though the white
devil-god was not the most feared of jungle creatures.
When Tarzan came to the cave mouth the hyenas were nowhere
in sight, and after permitting Tibo to quench his thirst
in the spring which rose near by, he lifted the boy to his
shoulders and set off toward the jungle at a rapid trot,
determined to still the annoying howlings of Momaya
as quickly as possible, for he shrewdly had guessed that
the absence of her balu was the cause of her lamentation.
"He is not dead at the bottom of the river," cried Bukawai.
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: floor, turning always in a circle toward the couch.
Satisfied that the object she sought was nowhere in
the circle she had covered, she moved a step from the
table and winked the light beneath it. She squatted on
the floor and flashed it carefully over every inch of
its boards from one corner of the room to the other and
under the couch.
She rose softly, glided behind the head of the
sleeping man and stood back some six feet, lest the
flash of the torch might disturb him. She threw its
rays behind the couch and slowly raised them until they
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