| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: desert lay tranced, cold, waiting, mournful without light of moon or stars
or sun.
In the gray dawn Carley dragged her bruised and aching body back to her
tent, and, fastening the door, she threw off wet clothes and boots and fell
upon her bed. Slumber of exhaustion came to her.
When she awoke the tent was light and the moving shadows of cedar boughs on
the white canvas told that the sun was straight above. Carley ached as
never before. A deep pang seemed invested in every bone. Her heart felt
swollen out of proportion to its space in her breast. Her breathing came
slow and it hurt. Her blood was sluggish. Suddenly she shut her eyes. She
loathed the light of day. What was it that had happened?
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and with a cry of: "Here's two more for the fishes," rushed
toward them with uplifted ax.
But Black Michael was even quicker, so that the fellow
went down with a bullet in his back before he had taken a
half dozen steps.
With a loud roar, Black Michael attracted the attention of
the others, and, pointing to Lord and Lady Greystoke, cried:
"These here are my friends, and they are to be left alone.
D'ye understand?
"I'm captain of this ship now, an' what I says goes," he
added, turning to Clayton. "Just keep to yourselves, and
Tarzan of the Apes |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: calculus to fall back on, unless indeed you insist on his learning
music, and proceed to hit him if he cannot tell you the year Beethoven
was born.
A child has a right to finality as regards its compulsory lessons.
Also as regards physical training. At present it is assumed that the
schoolmaster has a right to force every child into an attempt to
become Porson and Bentley, Leibnitz and Newton, all rolled into one.
This is the tradition of the oldest grammar schools. In our times an
even more horrible and cynical claim has been made for the right to
drive boys through compulsory games in the playing fields until they
are too much exhausted physically to do anything but drop off to
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