| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: error a second time. It is as easy to dodge a volley as a
single shot. He has probably already given the command to
fire at will. God help me, I cannot dodge them all!"
An appalling splash within two yards of him was followed by a
loud, rushing sound, DIMINUENDO, which seemed to travel back
through the air to the fort and died in an explosion which
stirred the very river to its deeps! A rising sheet of water
curved over him, fell down upon him, blinded him, strangled
him! The cannon had taken an hand in the game. As he shook
his head free from the commotion of the smitten water he
heard the deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: hope.
"Let the Shawnee chief paint his prisoner black," commanded Wingenund.
When the missionary left the lodge with the runner, Whispering Winds had
smiled, for she had saved him whom she loved to hear speak; but the dread
command that followed paled her cheek. Black paint meant hideous death. She
saw this man so like the white father. Her piteous gaze tried to turn from
that white face; but the cold, steely eyes fascinated her.
She had saved one only to be the other's doom!
She had always been drawn toward white men. Many prisoners had she rescued.
She had even befriended her nation's bitter foe, Deathwind. She had listened
to the young missionary with rapture; she had been his savior. And now when
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: heavy trophy behind us.
Here we devoted another considerable period to
scraping and curing it. When this was done to our
satisfaction we made heavy boots, trousers, and coats
of the shaggy skin, turning the fur in.
From the scraps we fashioned caps that came down
around our ears, with flaps that fell about our shoulders
and breasts. We were now fairly well equipped for our
search for a pass to the opposite side of the Mountains
of the Clouds.
Our first step now was to move our camp upward to
Pellucidar |
