| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: his fiddle under his arm, and off he stepped upon the way he had
been going at first.
"Just to think!" said he, "I would either have been the richest
man in the world, or else I would have been a king, if it had not
been for Ill-Luck."
And that is the way we all of us talk.
Dr. Faustus had sat all the while neither drinking ale nor
smoking tobacco, but with his hands folded, and in silence. "I
know not why it is," said he, "but that story of yours, my
friend, brings to my mind a story of a man whom I once knew--a
great magician in his time, and a necromancer and a chemist and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: and owners met them. Without any delay they proceeded to
business. Mr. Bob Austin, better known as "Texas," was elected
boss of the round-up, and he immediately assigned the men to
their places and announced that they would work Squaw Creek. They
moved camp at once, Helen returning to the ranch.
It was three o'clock in the morning when the men were roused by
the cook's triangle calling them to the "chuck wagon" for
breakfast. It was still cold and dark as the boys crawled from
under their blankets and squatted round the fire to eat jerky,
biscuits and gravy, and to drink cupfuls of hot, black coffee.
Before sun rose every man was at his post far up on the Squaw
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful.
I never was nor never will be false.
KING RICHARD. Go, then, and muster men. But leave behind
Your son, George Stanley. Look your heart be firm,
Or else his head's assurance is but frail.
STANLEY. So deal with him as I prove true to you. Exit
Enter a MESSENGER
MESSENGER. My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,
As I by friends am well advertised,
Sir Edward Courtney and the haughty prelate,
Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother,
Richard III |
