| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: knowest the old saying, `Set a thief to catch a thief.'
As for the slaying of this fellow, it galleth me not a whit,
for I would shed the blood of my own brother for the half
of two hundred pounds."
To all this Robin listened, and as he listened his gorge rose.
Well he knew of this Guy of Gisbourne, and of all the bloody and
murderous deeds that he had done in Herefordshire, for his doings
were famous throughout all the land. Yet, although he loathed
the very presence of the man, he held his peace, for he had an end
to serve. "Truly," quoth he, "I have heard of thy gentle doings.
Methinks there is no one in all the world that Robin Hood would
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: so about his dead brother that YOU know he never cared
a straw for, wanted to marry that young girl there,
and she wouldn't have him. So he told Uncle Silas he
would make him sorry. Uncle Silas knowed how powerful
he was, and how little chance he had against such a man,
and he was scared and worried, and done everything he could
think of to smooth him over and get him to be good to him:
he even took his no-account brother Jubiter on the farm
and give him wages and stinted his own family to pay them;
and Jubiter done everything his brother could contrive
to insult Uncle Silas, and fret and worry him, and try
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: He fitted with an unfamiliar grace
The coffin where I could not see him then
As I had seen him and appraised him when
I deemed him unessential to the race.
For there was more of him than what I saw.
And there was on me more than the old awe
That is the common genius of the dead.
I might as well have heard him: "Never mind;
If some of us were not so far behind,
The rest of us were not so far ahead."
The Rat
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