| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have become interested in her plans, and especially in her
intended destination when her journey had been interrupted
at his village.
Seeing no reason for withholding the information, she told
him the truth; but when he asked if she expected to meet her
husband at the end of the trip, she shook her head negatively.
Then he told her the purpose of his visit, talking through
the interpreter.
"I have just learned," he said, "from some men who live
by the side of the great water, that your husband followed
you up the Ugambi for several marches, when he was at last
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And for the evening gale.
Under the shore his boat was tied,
And all her listless crew
Watched the gray alligator slide
Into the still bayou.
Odors of orange-flowers, and spice,
Reached them from time to time,
Like airs that breathe from Paradise
Upon a world of crime.
The Planter, under his roof of thatch,
Smoked thoughtfully and slow;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: propped open on the kitchen table, and keep my
mind upon higher things as I do such menial tasks."
Then Susan stood in the doorway, a tall figure
gracefully swaying sidewise, long-throated and promi-
nent-eyed. She was the least attractive-looking of
any of the sisters, but her manners were so charming,
and she was so perfectly the lady, that it made up
for any lack of beauty.
"I will dust," said Susan, in a lovely voice, and
as she spoke she involuntarily bent and swirled her
limp muslins in such a way that she fairly suggested
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