| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: of the great trees was now slowly rolling away in those dark, weird clouds
of smoke. I was sad for the loss and sick with fear for Dick and Hiram.
Herky must have known my mind.
"You needn't feel bad, kid. Thet's only a foothill or so of Penetier gone
up in smoke. An' Buell's sawmill went, too. It's almost a sure thing thet
Leslie an' old Bent got out safe, though they must be doin' some tall
worryin' about you. I wonder how they feel about me an' Bud an' Bill? A
little prematoore roastin' for us, eh? Wal, wal!"
We went back to the camp. I lay down near the fire and fell asleep. Some
time in the night I awoke. The fire was still burning brightly. Bud and
Bill were lying with their backs to it almost close enough to scorch. Herky
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: placed, its neighbours are all defenceless; and if at any moment the
jealousies of the greater courts should neutralise each other, an
active policy might double the principality both in population and
extent. Certainly at least the scheme is entertained in the court
of Mittwalden; nor do I myself regard it as entirely desperate. The
margravate of Brandenburg has grown from as small beginnings to a
formidable power; and though it is late in the day to try
adventurous policies, and the age of war seems ended, Fortune, we
must not forget, still blindly turns her wheel for men and nations.
Concurrently with, and tributary to, these warlike preparations,
crushing taxes have been levied, journals have been suppressed, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: remember.
Exalted then be God, the king, the truth! Hasten not the Koran
before its inspiration is decided for thee; but say, 'O Lord! increase
me in knowledge.'
We did make a covenant with Adam of yore, but he forgot it, and we
found no firm purpose in him.
And when we said to the angels, 'Adore Adam,' they adored, save
Iblis, who refused. And we said, 'O Adam! verily, this is a foe to
thee and to thy wife; never then let him drive you twain forth from
the garden or thou wilt be wretched. Verily, thou hast not to be
hungry there, nor naked! and, verily, thou shalt not thirst therein,
The Koran |
