| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: merciful man falls while the oppressor flourishes. Then his black servant
who was with him took him quickly in his arms, and carried him out at the
back of the hut, and down into the river bed where the water flowed and no
man could trace his footsteps, and hid him in a hole in the river wall.
And when the men broke into the hut they could find no white man, and no
traces of his feet. But at evening, when the black servant returned to the
hut to get food and medicine for his master, the men who were fighting
caught him, and they said, 'Oh, you betrayer of your people, white man's
dog, who are on the side of those who take our lands and our wives and our
daughters before our eyes; tell us where you have hidden him?' And when he
would not answer them, they killed him before the door of the hut. And
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: and maybe you're another. But, as I've said, you've one chance
in a thousand. And, by Heaven! I'd hate to be Cheseldine or any
other man you were trailing. No, not good-by--Adios, Duane! May
we meet again!"
BOOK II THE RANGER
CHAPTER XV
West of the Pecos River Texas extended a vast wild region,
barren in the north where the Llano Estacado spread its
shifting sands, fertile in the south along the Rio Grande. A
railroad marked an undeviating course across five hundred miles
of this country, and the only villages and towns lay on or near
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: There was a fellow Naboth had a vineyard,
And Ahab cut his hair off and went softly.
HAMILTON
I don't remember that he cut his hair off.
BURR
Somehow I rather fancy that he did.
If so, it's in the Book; and if not so,
He did the rest, and did it handsomely.
HAMILTON
Commend yourself to Ahab and his ways
If they inveigle you to emulation;
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