| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: practical essayed to make Duane drink from a flask. He was not
so far gone that he could not recognize its contents, which he
refused, and weakly asked for water. When that was given him he
found his voice.
"Yes, I'm Duane. I've only overdone myself--just all in. The
wounds I got at Bland's are healing. Will you take this girl
in--hide her awhile till the excitement's over among the
outlaws?"
"I shore will," replied the Texan.
"Thanks. I'll remember you--I'll square it."
"What 're you goin' to do?"
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: made when it was told him by his friend. It was one of his
humours to pride himself on a certain literary ability; he
thought well of his style, and took pains in arranging the
circumstances in dramatic order. He read the following story:--
The persons concerned in this statement are Helen V.,
who, if she is still alive, must now be a woman of
twenty-three, Rachel M., since deceased, who was a year younger
than the above, and Trevor W., an imbecile, aged eighteen.
These persons were at the period of the story inhabitants of a
village on the borders of Wales, a place of some importance in
the time of the Roman occupation, but now a scattered hamlet,
The Great God Pan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: And he said, "No."
And I heard a sound of something cracking, and I looked, and I saw the band
that bound the burden on to her back broken asunder; and the burden rolled
on to the ground.
And I said, "What is this?"
And he said, "The Age-of-muscular-force is dead. The Age-of-nervous-force
has killed him with the knife he holds in his hand; and silently and
invisibly he has crept up to the woman, and with that knife of Mechanical
Invention he has cut the band that bound the burden to her back. The
Inevitable Necessity it broken. She might rise now."
And I saw that she still lay motionless on the sand, with her eyes open and
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