| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "Well, then, Danny," says he, "how would you
like to be an Indian?"
"Medical?" asts I, "or real?"
"Like Looey," says he.
I tells him being a medical Injun and mixed up
with a show like his'n would suit me down to the
ground, and asts him what is the main duties of
one besides the blankets and the feathers.
"Well," he says, "this camping-out scheme of
mine will take a couple of Indians. Instead of pay-
ing hotel and feed bills we'll pitch our tent," he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: bringing his desires and his troubles to his very door. Belarab
did not want any one to die but neither did he want any one in
particular to live. What he was concerned about was to preserve
the mystery and the power of his melancholy hesitations. These
delicate things were menaced by Lingard's brusque movements, by
that passionate white man who believed in more than one God and
always seemed to doubt the power of Destiny. Belarab was
profoundly annoyed. He was also genuinely concerned, for he liked
Lingard. He liked him not only for his strength, which protected
his clear-minded scepticism from those dangers that beset all
rulers, but he liked him also for himself. That man of infinite
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: and the veining of each leaf -- he saw the very insects upon
them: the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray
spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. He noted
the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million
blades of grass. The humming of the gnats that danced above
the eddies of the stream, the beating of the dragon flies'
wings, the strokes of the water spiders' legs, like oars
which had lifted their boat -- all these made audible
music. A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the
rush of its body parting the water.
He had come to the surface facing down the stream; in a
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
