| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Even as he faced me a little cry from the girl carried
my eyes beyond the brute to her face. Hers was fastened
upon me with an expression of incredulity that baffles
description. There was both hope and horror in them,
too.
"Dian!" I cried. "My Heavens, Dian!"
I saw her lips form the name David, as with raised
javelin she rushed forward upon the tarag. She was a
tigress then--a primitive savage female defending her
loved one. Before she could reach the beast with her
puny weapon, I fired again at the point where the tarag's
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: to their mother's melancholy. Day by day her face was growing pale and
wan, there were hollows now in her temples, the lines in her forehead
grew deeper night after night.
August came. The little family had been five months at La Grenadiere,
and their whole life was changed. The old servant grew anxious and
gloomy as she watched the almost imperceptible symptoms of slow
decline in the mistress, who seemed to be kept in life by an
impassioned soul and intense love of her children. Old Annette seemed
to see that death was very near. That mistress, beautiful still, was
more careful of her appearance than she had ever been; she was at
pains to adorn her wasted self, and wore paint on her cheeks; but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Little do you think to-day,
As you hurry to your play,
That a lot of us, grown old
In the chase for fame and gold,
Watch you as you pass along
Gayly whistling bits of song,
And in envy sit and dream
Of a long-neglected stream,
Where long buried are the joys
We possessed when we were boys.
Little chap, you cannot guess
A Heap O' Livin' |
