| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: along the jetty like a ripple on the water, like a breath
of wind on a field--and all was still again. I see it now
--the wide sweep of the bay, the glittering sands, the
wealth of green infinite and varied, the sea blue like the
sea of a dream, the crowd of attentive faces, the blaze of
vivid color--the water reflecting it all, the curve of the
shore, the jetty, the high-sterned outlandish craft float-
ing still, and the three boats with tired men from the
West sleeping unconscious of the land and the people
and of the violence of sunshine. They slept thrown
across the thwarts, curled on bottom-boards, in the care-
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: God. "I know Thou art great, and that it is a sin to ask this of Thee,
but for God's sake do let the old wolf come my way and let Karay
spring at it- in sight of 'Uncle' who is watching from over there- and
seize it by the throat in a death grip!" A thousand times during
that half-hour Rostov cast eager and restless glances over the edge of
the wood, with the two scraggy oaks rising above the aspen undergrowth
and the gully with its water-worn side and "Uncle's" cap just
visible above the bush on his right.
"No, I shan't have such luck," thought Rostov, "yet what wouldn't it
be worth! It is not to be! Everywhere, at cards and in war, I am
always unlucky." Memories of Austerlitz and of Dolokhov flashed
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: nivore, the left arm in front of the beast's left shoulder and
the right arm behind his right foreleg, and with the impact the
two together rolling over and over upon the turf. He heard
the snarls and growls of bestial combat, and it was with a feel-
ing of no little horror that he realized that the sounds com-
ing from the human throat of the battling man could scarce
be distinguished from those of the panther.
The first momentary shock of terror over, the girl released
her grasp upon the Englishman's arm. "Cannot we do some-
thing?" she asked. "Cannot we help him before the beast
kills him?"
Tarzan the Untamed |
