| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own
tenebrous and passionate soul.
"She came abreast of the steamer, stood still, and faced us.
Her long shadow fell to the water's edge. Her face had a tragic
and fierce aspect of wild sorrow and of dumb pain mingled
with the fear of some struggling, half-shaped resolve.
She stood looking at us without a stir, and like the wilderness
itself, with an air of brooding over an inscrutable purpose.
A whole minute passed, and then she made a step forward.
There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of
fringed draperies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her.
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the impossible once, and so I shall accomplish it again--I shall
escape from Caspak."
He was not looking at her face as he answered her, and so he
did not see the shadow of sorrow that crossed her countenance.
When he raised his eyes again, she was smiling.
"What you wish, I wish," said the girl.
Southward along the coast they made their way following the
beach, where the walking was best, but always keeping close
enough to trees to insure sanctuary from the beasts and reptiles
that so often menaced them. It was late in the afternoon when
the girl suddenly seized Bradley's arm and pointed straight ahead
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: guards had located his position. Once a bullet hissed by him;
another thudded into the ground before him. This shooting
loosed a rage in Duane. He had to fly from these men, and he
hated them and himself because of it. Always in the fury of
such moments he wanted to give back shot for shot. But he
slipped on through the willows, and at length the rifles ceased
to crack.
He sheered to the left again, in line with the rocky barrier,
and kept on, wondering what the next mile would bring.
It brought worse, for he was seen by sharp-eyed scouts, and a
hot fusillade drove him to run for his life, luckily to escape
The Lone Star Ranger |
