| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: desire to share some joke.
"She's the only thing that's left to me," sighed Willoughby.
"We go on year after year without talking about these things--"
He broke off. "But it's better so. Only life's very hard."
Helen was sorry for him, and patted him on the shoulder, but she
felt uncomfortable when her brother-in-law expressed his feelings,
and took refuge in praising Rachel, and explaining why she thought
her plan might be a good one.
"True," said Willoughby when she had done. "The social conditions
are bound to be primitive. I should be out a good deal. I agreed
because she wished it. And of course I have complete confidence
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: winters of that high latitude, but elegance and luxury had no more
significance in her life.
Hoyle made his suggestions as to changes and adaptations, and, receiving
her approval, he went on to show her what had been already accomplished.
Back on higher ground a reservoir of concrete was being constructed near an
ever-flowing spring of snow water from the peaks. This water was being
piped by gravity to the house, and was a matter of greatest satisfaction to
Hoyle, for he claimed that it would never freeze in winter, and would be
cold and abundant during the hottest and driest of summers. This assurance
solved the most difficult and serious problem of ranch life in the desert.
Next Hoyle led Carley down off the knoll to the wide cedar valley adjacent
The Call of the Canyon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: [Wednesday, 30th Aug.]
The whole of the artificers left the rock at mid-day,
when the tender made sail for Arbroath, which she reached
about six p.m. The vessel being decorated with colours, and
having fired a salute of three guns on approaching the
harbour, the workyard artificers, with a multitude of people,
assembled at the harbour, when mutual cheering and
congratulations took place between those afloat and those on
the quays. The tender had now, with little exception, been
six months on the station at the Bell Rock, and during the
last four months few of the squad of builders had been ashore.
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