| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: whirling smoke. Then I fled onward again.
Match after match I struck, and when the box was empty I must have been a
mile, two miles, maybe more, from the starting-point. I was wringing-wet,
and there was a piercing pain in my side. I plunged across the brook, and
in as deep water as I could find knelt down to cover all but my face. Then,
with laboring breaths that bubbled the water near my mouth, I kept still
and watched.
The back-fire which I had started swept up over the slope and down the
brook like a charge of red lancers. Spears of flame led the advance. The
flame licked up the dry surface-grass and brush, and, meeting the pines,
circled them in a whirlwind of fire, like lightning flashing upward. Then
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: Rev. B. Jowett, M.A.
Master of Balliol College
Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a
pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: he must promise to reform his wicked ways and to do his
duty faithfully, and he must change his name from Krewl
to Grewl. All this the man eagerly promised to do, and so
when Pon retired to a room in the castle to put on
princely raiment, the old brown smock he had formerly
worn was given to Grewl, who then went out into the
garden to water the roses.
The remainder of that famous day, which was long
remembered in Jinxland, was given over to feasting and
merrymaking. In the evening there was a grand dance in
the courtyard, where the brass band played a new piece of
The Scarecrow of Oz |
