| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "I tell you you've got to go. Eugenio'll raise--something!"
"I'm not afraid of Eugenio," said Daisy with a toss of her head.
"Look here, Mrs. Walker," she went on, "you know I'm coming
to your party."
"I am delighted to hear it."
"I've got a lovely dress!"
"I am very sure of that."
"But I want to ask a favor--permission to bring a friend."
"I shall be happy to see any of your friends," said Mrs. Walker,
turning with a smile to Mrs. Miller.
"Oh, they are not my friends," answered Daisy's mamma,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: soul and its injury; go on your way. In the next world perhaps--'
"He cried, 'Go from me, you understand nothing! What is the next world to
me! I am lost now, today. I cannot see the sunlight shine, the dust is in
my throat, the sand is in my eyes! Go from me, you know nothing! Oh, once
again before I die to see that the world is beautiful! Oh, God, God, I
cannot live and not love. I cannot live and hate. Oh, God, God, God!' So
I left him crying out and came back here."
God said, "This man's soul must be saved."
And the angel said "How?"
God said, "Go down you, and save it."
The angel said, "What more shall I do?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: getful of the saber which he had dropped upon the floor beside
the couch as he leaped to grapple with the girl, closed with
bare hands upon his antagonist, his sharp-filed teeth searching
for the other's throat.
Metak, the son of Herog, was no weakling. Powerful by
nature and rendered still more so in the throes of one of his
maniacal fits of fury he was no mean antagonist, even for the
mighty ape-man, and to this a distinct advantage for him was
added by the fact that almost at the outset of their battle
Tarzan, in stepping backward, struck his heel against the
corpse of the man whom Smith-Oldwick had killed, and fell
Tarzan the Untamed |
