| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: In energies more active. Rise
And shake the lightnings from your eyes;
Inspire your underlings, and fling
Your spirit into everything!"
The Master's hand here dealt a whack
Upon the Deputy's bent back,
When straightway to the floor there fell
A shrunken globe, a rattling shell
A blackened, withered, eyeless head!
The man had been a twelvemonth dead.
Jamrach Holobom
The Devil's Dictionary |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"It can only mean one thing," Blix declared; "one of them is the
captain, and one is a coincidence. Anybody might wear a
marguerite; we ought to have thought of that."
"But which is which?"
"If K. D. B. should come now!"
"But the last man looks more like the captain."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: of range. Spring was backward, and they, as they rode galloping
and gathering upon the cold week's work, cursed cheerily and
occasionally sang. The Virginian was grave in bearing and of
infrequent speech; but he kept a song going--a matter of some
seventy-nine verses. Seventy-eight were quite unprintable, and
rejoiced his brother cowpunchers monstrously. They, knowing him
to be a singular man, forebore ever to press him, and awaited his
own humor, lest he should weary of the lyric; and when after a
day of silence apparently saturnine, he would lift his gentle
voice and begin:
"If you go to monkey with my Looloo girl,
The Virginian |
