| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: `Write to David [one of the lightkeepers] and caution him
to be more prudent how he expresses himself. Let him attend
his duty to the Lighthouse and his family concerns, and give
less heed to Tale-bearers.' `I have not your last letter at
hand to quote its date; but, if I recollect, it contains some
kind of tales, which nonsense I wish you would lay aside, and
notice only the concerns of your family and the important
charge committed to you.'
Apparently, however, my grandfather was not himself
inaccessible to the Tale-bearer, as the following indicates:
`In walking along with Mr. - , I explain to him that I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and they had taken scarcely a dozen steps when a rifle spoke
above the noise of human voices and a bullet whizzed past
them.
Then Billy replied, and Barbara, too, from just behind his
shoulder. Together they backed away toward the shadow of
the trees beyond the village and as they went they poured shot
after shot into the village.
The Indians, but just awakened and still half stupid from
sleep, did not know but that they were attacked by a vastly
superior force, and this fear held them in check for several
minutes--long enough for Billy and Barbara to reach the
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Sche wolde be his leve go
With othre Maidens to compleigne,
And afterward unto the peine
Of deth sche wolde come ayein.
The fader herde his douhter sein,
And therupon of on assent
The Maidens were anon asent, 1580
That scholden with this Maiden wende.
So forto speke unto this ende,
Thei gon the dounes and the dales
With wepinge and with wofull tales,
Confessio Amantis |
