| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: his head before the life went out of him, and he lay as flat
as the Jackal.
"Thunder and lightning! Lightning and thunder!" said that
miserable little beast. "Has the thing that pulls the covered
carts over the bridge tumbled at last?"
"It is no more than a gun," said the Adjutant, though his
very tail-feathers quivered. "Nothing more than a gun. He is
certainly dead. Here come the white-faces."
The two Englishmen had hurried down from the bridge and across
to the sand-bar, where they stood admiring the length of the
Mugger. Then a native with an axe cut off the big head, and four
The Second Jungle Book |
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: trees, for all the trail he left. But redmen followed the same methods of
woodcraft from tradition, as Wetzel had learned after long years of study and
experience.
And now, satisfied that he had divined the Delaware's intention, he slipped
down the bank of the ravine, and once more broke into a run. He leaped
lightly, sure-footed as a goat, from stone to stone, over fallen logs, and the
brawling brook. At every turn of the ravine, at every open place, he stopped
to listen.
Arriving on the other side of the ridge, he left the ravine and passed along
the edge of the rising ground. He listened to the birds, and searched the
grass and leaves. He found not the slightest indication of a trail where he
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and
prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation;
justice, a wrong; delicacy, pusillanimity; honesty, a modus
vivendi; and by some strange dispensation of fate, he must see
that those who at heart were really honest, scrupulous, just,
generous, prudent, or brave were held cheaply by their fellow-
men.
"What a cold-blooded jest!" said he to himself. "It was not
devised by a God."
From that time forth he renounced a better world, and never
uncovered himself when a Name was pronounced, and for him the
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