| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: had felt in him on that occasion when she had saved his life.
Then a debonair recklessness had been the outstanding note, but
now there was something ribald and wicked in him.
"Since y'u put it as a question, common politeness demands an
answer. Ned Bannister is my name."
"You are the terror of this country?"
"I shan't be a terror to y'u, ma'am, if I can help it," he
smiled.
"But you are the man they call the king?"
"I have that honor."
"HONOR?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: Tarantula, or Narbonne Lycosa, half the size of the other, clad in
black velvet on the lower surface, especially under the belly, with
brown chevrons on the abdomen and grey and white rings around the
legs. Her favourite home is the dry, pebbly ground, covered with
sun-scorched thyme. In my harmas {6} laboratory there are quite
twenty of this Spider's burrows. Rarely do I pass by one of these
haunts without giving a glance down the pit where gleam, like
diamonds, the four great eyes, the four telescopes, of the hermit.
The four others, which are much smaller, are not visible at that
depth.
Would I have greater riches, I have but to walk a hundred yards
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: taken off, and two towels--one a long Russian embroidered one,
the other a bath towel. The unused soap with the stamped
inscription, the towels, and her own self, all were equally
clean, fresh, undefiled and pleasant. The irrepressible smile of
joy at the sight of him made the sweet, firm lips pucker up as of
old.
"How do you do, Dmitri Ivanovitch?" she uttered with difficulty,
her face suffused with a rosy blush.
"Good-morning! How do you do?" he said, also blushing. "Alive and
well?"
Yes, the Lord be thanked. And here is your favorite pink soap and
Resurrection |
