| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Flourish. Exeunt.]
ACT II.
SCENE I. A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire.
[A march. Enter EDWARD and RICHARD, with their Power.]
EDWARD.
I wonder how our princely father scap'd,
Or whether he be scap'd away or no
From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit.
Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;
Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;
Or had he scap'd, methinks we should have heard
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: chase down that steep, bushy slope. Cubby got going, and I could no more
have checked him than I could a steam-engine. Very soon I saw that not only
was the bear cub running away, but he was running away with me. I slid down
yellow places where the earth was exposed, I tore through thickets, I
dodged a thousand trees. In some grassy descents it was as if I had
seven-league boots. I must have broken all records for jumps. All at once I
stumbled just as Cubby made a spurt and flew forward, alighting face
downward. I dug up the pine--needles with my outstretched hands, I scraped
with my face and ploughed with my nose, I ate the dust; and when I brought
up with a jolt against a log a more furious boy than Ken Ward it would be
bard to imagine. Leaping up, I strove with every ounce of might to hold in
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the vessel.
This operation concluded, they hastily clambered over her
sides, sliding down the guy ropes to the ground. The last
warrior to leave the deck turned and threw something back
upon the vessel, waiting an instant to note the outcome of
his act. As a faint spurt of flame rose from the point where
the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly
upon the ground. Scarcely had he alighted than the guy ropes
were simultaneous released, and the great warship, lightened
by the removal of the loot, soared majestically into the air,
her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.
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