| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: "Oh Day of Fire and Sun"
"I Thought of You"
On the Dunes
Spray
If Death Is Kind
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Thoughts
Faces
Evening: New York
Snowfall
The Silent Battle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: pass all the hordes which might be brought up from the south;
yet there it lay entirely unguarded.
The Galus might be a great people in Caspak; but they were
pitifully inefficient in even the simpler forms of military tactics.
I was surprised that even a man of the Stone Age should be so
lacking in military perspicacity. Du-seen dropped far below
par in my estimation as I saw the slovenly formation of his
troop as it passed through an enemy country and entered the
domain of the chief against whom he had risen in revolt; but
Du-seen must have known Jor the chief and known that Jor would
not be waiting for him at the pass. Nevertheless he took
The People That Time Forgot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: They all started and turned about.
"Why, here's our chance to get the firearms!"
Riach cried; and then to me: "Hark ye, David," he said, "do ye
ken where the pistols are?"
"Ay, ay," put in Hoseason. "David kens; David's a good lad. Ye
see, David my man, yon wild Hielandman is a danger to the ship,
besides being a rank foe to King George, God bless him!"
I had never been so be-Davided since I came on board: but I said
Yes, as if all I heard were quite natural.
"The trouble is," resumed the captain, "that all our firelocks,
great and little, are in the round-house under this man's nose;
Kidnapped |
