| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: to go back, carefully examining the ground.
"They've split on us," he explained. "The ole feller with the trap went up
the right-hand draw, an' the mother an' cub took to the left. Now,
youngster, can you keep your nerve?"
"I think so."
"Wal, you go after the ole feller. You can't miss him, an' he won't be far.
You'll hear him bellerin' long before you git to him, though he might lay
low, so you steer clear of big boulders an' thickets. Kill him, an' then
run back an' take up this draw. The she bear is cute an' may give me the
slip, but if she doesn't climb out soon I'll head her off. Hurry on, now.
Keep your eye peeled, an' you'll be safe as if you were to home."
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: buildings--another--another. Five stories added to this
one, six stories to that, a new fifteen story merchandise
building.
The firm began to talk in tens of millions. Its stock
became gilt-edged, unattainable. Lucky ones who had bought
of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four
and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their
dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring
gymnastically beyond all reason. Listen to the old guide
who (at fifteen a week) takes groups of awed visitors
through the great plant. How he juggles figures; how
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones;
And let mild women to him lose their mildness,
Wilder to him than tigers in their wildness.
'Let him have time to tear his curled hair,
Let him have time against himself to rave,
Let him have time of Time's help to despair,
Let him have time to live a loathed slave,
Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave;
And time to see one that by alms doth live
Disdain to him disdained scraps to give.
'Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
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