| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: and writhed while the runners scored with more
tallies than they needed to win.
What did we care! Justice had been done us,
and we were unutterably happy. Crabe Bane
stood on his head; Gillinger began a war dance;
old man Hathaway hobbled out to the side lines
and whooped like an Indian; Snead rolled over
and over in the grass. All of us broke out into
typical expressions of baseball frenzy, and
individual ones illustrating our particular moods.
Merritt got up and made a dive for the ball.
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Had he known what further the boy contemplated he would doubtless
have entirely abandoned his own scheme of revenge and aided the
boy whole heartedly in the consummation of the lad's, which would
have been better for Paulvitch, could he have but read the future
but a few short hours ahead.
That afternoon Lord and Lady Greystoke bid their son good-
bye and saw him safely settled in a first-class compartment of
the railway carriage that would set him down at school in a
few hours. No sooner had they left him, however, than he
gathered his bags together, descended from the compartment and
sought a cab stand outside the station. Here he engaged a cabby
The Son of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: I turned to run down again towards the vault, where I might
find the new entrance, but at the moment there seemed to come
a violent puff of wind, and the door to the winding stair blew
to with a shock that set the dust from the lintels flying.
When I ran to push it open, I found that it was hopelessly fast.
I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing round
me more closely.
As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many
tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily,
doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.
There was a sound of hammering. It is the box being nailed down.
Dracula |
