| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: enough to let in the sun an' light. Brush, windfalls rottin' logs must be
burned. Thickets of young pine must be thinned. Care oughten be taken not
to cut on the north an' west edges of the forests, as the old guard pines
will break the wind."
"How will you treat miners and prospectors?"
"They must be as free to take up claims as if there wasn't no National
Forest."
"How about the settler, the man seeking a home out West?" I went on.
"We'll encourage him. The more men there are, the better the forester can
fight fire. But those home-seekers must want a home, an' not be squattin'
for a little, jest to sell out to lumber sharks."
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: If, for instance, the intruder who dropped the bar and scratched
the staircase--you see, I know about that--if this visitor was a
woman, why should not the same woman have come back the following
night, met Mr. Armstrong on the circular staircase, and in alarm
shot him?"
"It was a man," I reiterated. And then, because I could think of
no other reason for my statement, I told him about the pearl
cuff-link. He was intensely interested.
"Will you give me the link," he said, when I finished, "or, at
least, let me see it? I consider it a most important clue."
"Won't the description do?"
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: usual geologic way--bubbles or flaws in the earth's crust--which
were later used by the monsters of the period of the young world.
It may have been, of course, that some of them were worn originally
by water; but in time they all found a use when suitable for living
monsters.
"This brings us to another point, more difficult to accept and
understand than any other requiring belief in a base not usually
accepted, or indeed entered on--whether such abnormal growths could
have ever changed in their nature. Some day the study of metabolism
may progress so far as to enable us to accept structural changes
proceeding from an intellectual or moral base. We may lean towards
Lair of the White Worm |
