| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: only handicap and vantage. It was a fleet, beautiful, magnificent
race. Gale thrilled and exulted and yelled as his horse settled
into a steadily swifter run and began to gain. The dust rolled in
a funnel-shaped cloud from the flying hoofs. The raider wheeled
with gun puffing white, and Ladd ducked low over the neck of his
horse.
The gap between Diablo and Sol narrowed yard by yard. At first
it had been a wide one. The raider beat his mount and spurred,
beat and spurred, wheeled round to shoot, then bent forward again.
In his circle at the upper end of the valley he turned far short
of the jumble of rocks.
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: addition of a few contemporary novelties also. Grace seemed to
regard the selling with the interest which attaches to memories
revived after an interval of obliviousness.
Winterborne went and stood close to them; the timber-merchant
spoke, and continued his buying; Grace merely smiled. To justify
his presence there Winterborne began bidding for timber and fagots
that he did not want, pursuing the occupation in an abstracted
mood, in which the auctioneer's voice seemed to become one of the
natural sounds of the woodland. A few flakes of snow descended,
at the sight of which a robin, alarmed at these signs of imminent
winter, and seeing that no offence was meant by the human
The Woodlanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOH 9:32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the
eyes of one that was born blind.
JOH 9:33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
JOH 9:34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in
sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
JOH 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found
him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
JOH 9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on
him?
JOH 9:37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he
that talketh with thee.
King James Bible |
