| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: off and both were trying to find an answer to a question in the
eyes opposite. Then voluntarily each gaze released the other in a
confusion of sweet shame. For the beating of a lash, soul had
looked into naked soul, all disguise stripped from them. She knew
that he knew. Yet in that instant when his secret was surprised
from him another secret, sweeter than the morning song of birds,
sang its way into both their hearts.
CHAPTER 10. THE HOLD-UP OF THE M. C. P. FLYER
Agua Negra is twelve miles from Chihuahua as the crow flies, but
if one goes by rail one twists round thirty sinuous miles of
rough mountainous country in the descent from the pass to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: asleep, but she was dead.
The farther I penetrated into London, the profounder grew
the stillness. But it was not so much the stillness of death--
it was the stillness of suspense, of expectation. At any time
the destruction that had already singed the northwestern
borders of the metropolis, and had annihilated Ealing and
Kilburn, might strike among these houses and leave them
smoking ruins. It was a city condemned and derelict. . . .
In South Kensington the streets were clear of dead and of
black powder. It was near South Kensington that I first heard
the howling. It crept almost imperceptibly upon my senses.
War of the Worlds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: and the grave of the princess."...
In the wreck of the nest he searched and searched, and at last discovered
a tiny mound, on the top of which was fixed a water-worn pebble, in shape
resembling a Buddhist monument. Underneath it he found -- embedded in clay
-- the dead body of a female ant.
RIKI-BAKA
His name was Riki, signifying Strength; but the people called him
Riki-the-Simple, or Riki-the-Fool,-- "Riki-Baka,"-- because he had been
born into perpetual childhood. For the same reason they were kind to him,--
even when he set a house on fire by putting a lighted match to a
mosquito-curtain, and clapped his hands for joy to see the blaze. At
Kwaidan |
