| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: coats of the riders were also uniform, being of dark
gray villosa faced with black wolf skin, so that notwith-
standing the richness of the armor and the horse trap-
pings there was a grim, gray warlike appearance to
these wild companies that comported well with their
reputation.
Recruited from all ranks of society and from every
civilized country of Europe the great horde of Torn
numbered in its ten companies serf and noble; Britain,
Saxon, Norman, Dane, German, Italian and French, Scot,
Pict and Irish.
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "A little over a year ago, John Siders, who signed himself as coming
from Chicago, bought a piece of property in our town and came to
live there. I made his acquaintance in the caf‚ and he seemed to
take a fancy to me. I also had spent several years in Chicago, and
we naturally came to speak of the place. We discovered that we had
several mutual acquaintances there, and enjoyed talking over the
old times. Otherwise I did not take particularly to the man, and
as I came to know him better I noticed that he never mentioned that
part of his life which lay back of the years in Chicago. I asked a
casual question once or twice as to his home and family, but he
evaded me every time, and would not give a direct answer. He was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: For I shall sing of battles, blood, and rage,
Which princes and their people did engage;
And haughty souls, that, mov'd with mutual hate,
In fighting fields pursued and found their fate;
That rous'd the Tyrrhene realm with loud alarms,
And peaceful Italy involv'd in arms.
A larger scene of action is display'd;
And, rising hence, a greater work is weigh'd.
Latinus, old and mild, had long possess'd
The Latin scepter, and his people blest:
His father Faunus; a Laurentian dame
Aeneid |
