| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: mies I have been taught to hate. But it is too late,
Father, there can be but one end and that the lower
end of a hempen rope."
"No, my son, there is another way, an honorable
way," replied the good Father. "In some foreign clime
there be opportunities abundant for such as thee. France
offers a magnificent, future to such a soldier as Norman
of Torn. In the court of Louis you would take your
place among the highest of the land. You be rich and
brave and handsome, nay do not raise your hand, you
be all these and more, for you have learning far beyond
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: going the crowd rose in wild clamor to watch him.
Mac took that fly right off the foul flag in deep
left, and the bleachers dinned their pleasure.
The teams changed positions. ``Fellers,'' said
Spears, savagely, ``we may be a bunged-up lot of
stiffs, but, say! We can hit! If you love your
old captain--sting the ball!''
Vane, the Bison pitcher, surely had his work
cut out for him. For one sympathetic moment I
saw his part through his eyes. My Worcester
veterans, long used to being under fire, were
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: counsel not to despise an adversary.'
Alain turned.
'If I do not despise I hate you!' he cried, giving a loose to his
passion. 'Be warned of that, both of you.'
'I understand you to threaten Monsieur le Vicomte Anne,' said the
lawyer. 'Do you know, I would not do that. I am afraid, I am very
much afraid, if you were to do as you propose, you might drive me
into extremes.'
'You have made me a beggar and a bankrupt,' said Alain. What
extreme is left?'
'I scarce like to put a name upon it in this company,' replied
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