| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: surfaced skin, had the old fellow changed in all these
years. Without bodily vices, and clinging ever to the
open air and the exercise of the foil he was still
young in muscle and endurance.
For five years he had not crossed foils with Norman
of Torn, but he constantly practiced with the best
swordsmen of the wild horde, so that it had become
a subject often discussed among the men as to which
of the two, father or son, was the greater swordsman.
Always taciturn, the old fellow rode in his usual
silence. Long since had Norman of Torn usurped by
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them,
walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
MAR 6:49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it
had been a spirit, and cried out:
MAR 6:50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he
talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not
afraid.
MAR 6:51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased:
and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.
MAR 6:52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their
heart was hardened.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the child, but it died within the year of fever.
Meanwhile, he was horrified to learn that Dave Henderson,
following hard on his trail, had been found bending over the spot
where the dead soldier lay, had been arrested by a body of
Rurales, tried hurriedly, and convicted to life imprisonment. The
evidence had been purely circumstantial. The bullet found in the
dead body of the trooper was one that might have come from his
rifle, the barrel of which was empty and had been recently fired.
For the rest, he was a hated Americano, and, as a matter of
course, guilty. His judges took pains to see that no message from
him reached his friends in the States before he was buried alive
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