| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Most fairly and honestly, as the event shall show," replied the
artist. "What would it avail me to harm the poor old man for
whom you are interested?--you, to whom I owe it that Gaffer
Pinniewinks is not even now rending my flesh and sinews with his
accursed pincers, and probing every mole in my body with his
sharpened awl (a murrain on the hands which forged it!) in order
to find out the witch's mark?--I trust to yoke myself as a humble
follower to your worship's train, and I only wish to have my
faith judged of by the result of the good knight's slumbers."
Wayland Smith was right in his prognostication. The sedative
draught which his skill had prepared, and Will Badger's
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: idea of encountering the difficulties of the mountain, and swore
he would rather face all the Blackfeet in the country. He was
overruled, however, and the party began to ascend the mountain,
striving, with the ardor and emulation of young men, who should
be first up. M'Lellan, who was double the age of some of his
companions, soon began to lose breath, and fall in the rear. In
the distribution of burdens, it was his turn to carry the old
beaver trap. Piqued and irritated, he suddenly came to a halt,
swore he would carry it no further, and jerked it half-way down
the hill. He was offered in place of it a package of dried meat,
but this he scornfully threw upon the ground. They might carry
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