| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: backing of strength for resistance against the tyranny of the
bachelors, and it is for that more than for any other reason that
it has been told how they found the place and of what they did
there, feeling secure against interruption.
Myles Falworth was not of a kind that forgets or neglects a thing
upon which the mind has once been set. Perhaps his chief
objective since the talk with Sir James following his fight in
the dormitory had been successful resistance to the exactions of
the head of the body of squires. He was now (more than a month
had passed) looked upon by nearly if not all of the younger lads
as an acknowledged leader in his own class. So one day he
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: insolent, sang an Italian trill, and went towards the window
where Eugene was standing, moved thereto quite as much by a
desire to see the student's face as by a wish to look out into
the courtyard.
"But M. le Comte had better wait a moment longer; madame is
disengaged," said Maurice, as he returned to the ante-chamber.
Just at that moment Father Goriot appeared close to the gate; he
had emerged from a door at the foot of the back staircase. The
worthy soul was preparing to open his umbrella regardless of the
fact that the great gate had opened to admit a tilbury, in which
a young man with a ribbon at his button-hole was seated. Father
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The ape-man rose, and Akut came slowly to his feet.
Shaking his bullet head and growling angrily, he waddled toward
his tribe, looking first at one and then at another of the
larger bulls who might be expected to challenge his leadership.
But none did so; instead, they drew away as he approached,
and presently the whole pack moved off into the jungle,
and Tarzan was left alone once more upon the beach.
The ape-man was sore from the wounds that Molak had
inflicted upon him, but he was inured to physical suffering
and endured it with the calm and fortitude of the wild beasts
that had taught him to lead the jungle life after the manner
The Beasts of Tarzan |
