| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: a greenhorn out on his first hunting trip; but I did it nevertheless.
Accordingly after breakfast, having rubbed some oil upon my leg, which
was very sore from the cub's tongue, I took the driver, Tom, who did not
half like the business, and having armed myself with an ordinary double
No. 12 smoothbore, the first breechloader I ever had, I started. I took
the smoothbore because it shot a bullet very well; and my experience has
been that a round ball from a smoothbore is quite as effective against a
lion as an express bullet. The lion is soft, and not a difficult animal
to finish if you hit him anywhere in the body. A buck takes far more
killing.
"Well, I started, and the first thing I set to work to do was to try to
Long Odds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: wandering far in the wrong direction.
"Furthermore, close to the Mountains of the Clouds
dwells a good friend, Ja the Mezop. You did not know
him, but you know all that he did for me and all that he
will gladly do to aid me.
"At least he can direct us upon the right direction
toward Sari."
"The Mountains of the Clouds constitute a mighty
range," replied Perry. "They must cover an enormous
territory. How are you to find your friend in all the great
country that is visible from their rugged flanks?"
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: So they timidly entered the house again, having faith in their
friend's words; and afterward they had the joy of watching Claus carve
out a cat from a bit of wood and paint it in natural colors. It did
not take him long to do this, for he had become skillful with his knife
by this time, and Mayrie loved her toy the more dearly because she had
seen it made.
After his little visitors had trotted away on their journey homeward
Claus sat long in deep thought. And he then decided that such fierce
creatures as his friend the lioness would never do as models from
which to fashion his toys.
"There must be nothing to frighten the dear babies," he reflected;
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
