| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: gentlemen in a terrible plight.
On the afternoon following the crisis Heckewelder took Mr. Wells to one of the
Indian shops, and Jim and Nell went canoeing. Young and Edwards, after
conferring for one long, trying hour, determined on settling the question.
Young was a pale, slight man, very homely except when he smiled. His smile not
only broke up the plainness of his face, but seemed to chase away a serious
shadow, allowing his kindly, gentle spirit to shine through. He was nervous,
and had a timid manner. Edwards was his opposite, being a man of robust frame,
with a heavy face, and a manner that would have suggested self-confidence in
another man.
They were true and tried friends.
The Spirit of the Border |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: From the midnight of its branches;
Day by day the guests unmoving
Sat there silent in the wigwam;
But by night, in storm or starlight,
Forth they went into the forest,
Bringing fire-wood to the wigwam,
Bringing pine-cones for the burning,
Always sad and always silent.
And whenever Hiawatha
Came from fishing or from hunting,
When the evening meal was ready,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: and wish to quit it and lead an honest life again,
and will betray the helish design. They will sneak
down from northards, along the fence, at midnight
exact, with a false key, and go in the nigger's
cabin to get him. I am to be off a piece and blow
a tin horn if I see any danger; but stead of that I
will BA like a sheep soon as they get in and not
blow at all; then whilst they are getting his chains
loose, you slip there and lock them in, and can
kill them at your leasure. Don't do anything but
just the way I am telling you; if you do they will
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
