| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: all the better."
Euchre put on his sombrero, and as he went out Duane saw that
he wore a gun-and-cartridge belt. It was the first time Duane
had ever seen the outlaw armed.
Duane packed his few belongings into his saddlebags, and then
carried the saddles out to the corral. An abundance of alfalfa
in the corral showed that the horses had fared well. They had
gotten almost fat during his stay in the valley. He watered
them, put on the saddles loosely cinched, and then the bridles.
His next move was to fill the two canvas water-bottles. That
done, he returned to the cabin to wait.
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: "Yes, but it possesses great resistance. I will now ask our
worthy secretary to calculate the weight of a cast-iron gun with
a bore of nine feet and a thickness of six feet of metal."
"In a moment," replied Maston. Then, dashing off some
algebraical formulae with marvelous facility, in a minute or two
he declared the following result:
"The cannon will weigh 68,040 tons. And, at two cents a pound,
it will cost----"
"Two million five hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and
one dollars."
Maston, the major, and the general regarded Barbicane with
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
O soft! the lotus-buds upon the stream
Are stirring like sweet maidens when they dream.
A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven,
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple,
And swooning at the holy feet of Night.
Hush! in the silence mystic voices sing
And make the gods their incense-offering.
IN THE FOREST
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