| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: I'd had my guns--"
"Either my friend or the Elder of my church would be lying dead,"
she interposed
"Tull would be--surely."
"Oh, you fierce-blooded, savage youth! Can't I teach you
forebearance, mercy? Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies.
'Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath.'"
"Hush! Talk to me no more of mercy or religion--after to-day.
To-day this strange coming of Lassiter left me still a man, and
now I'll die a man!...Give me my guns."
Silently she went into the house, to return with a heavy
Riders of the Purple Sage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: Nils looked interested. "The other will?"
"Yes. A later one. They knew your father made another, but
they never knew what he did with it. They almost tore the old
house to pieces looking for it. They always suspected that he
carried on a clandestine correspondence with you, for the one thing
he would do was to get his own mail himself. So they thought he
might have sent the new will to you for safekeeping. The old one,
leaving everything to your mother, was made long before you went
away, and it's understood among them that it cuts you out--that she
will leave all the property to the others. Your father made the
second will to prevent that. I've been hoping you had it. It
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: in a shower which had passed over the ship in the afternoon.
Sitting stolidly at the head of the table I became terrified at the
sight of the garment on his arm. Of course he made for my door.
There was no time to lose.
"Steward," I thundered. My nerves were so shaken that I could not
govern my voice and conceal my agitation. This was the sort of
thing that made my terrifically whiskered mate tap his forehead
with his forefinger. I had detected him using that gesture while
talking on deck with a confidential air to the carpenter. It was
too far to hear a word, but I had no doubt that this pantomime
could only refer to the strange new captain.
'Twixt Land & Sea |
