| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: shepherd had called him. But at the next instant he started,
uttering an exclamation under his breath. The far-away speck of
black became animated. Presley remarked a sweeping gesture.
Though the man had not beckoned to him before, there was no doubt
that he was beckoning now. Without any hesitation, and
singularly interested in the incident, Presley turned sharply
aside and hurried on toward the shepherd, skirting the herd,
wondering all the time that he should answer the call with so
little question, so little hesitation.
But the shepherd came forward to meet Presley, followed by one of
his dogs. As the two men approached each other, Presley, closely
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: land of mystery and enchantment, to penetrate one
after another the canons dimly outlined in the shadows
cast by the westering sun, to cross the mountains
lying outspread in easy grasp of the eye, to gain the
distant blue Ridge, and see with our own eyes what
lay beyond.
For to its other attractions the prospect added that
of impossibility, of unattainableness. These rides of
ours were day rides. We had to get home by nightfall.
Our horses had to be fed, ourselves to be housed.
We had not time to continue on down the other side
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Distinguo: 1. SILVERADO was not written in America, but in
Switzerland's icy mountains. 2. What you read is the bleeding and
disembowelled remains of what I wrote. 3. The good stuff is all to
come - so I think. 'The Sea Fogs,' 'The Hunter's Family,' 'Toils
and Pleasures' - BELLES PAGES. - Yours ever,
RAMNUGGER.
O! - Seeley is too clever to live, and the book a gem. But why has
he read too much Arnold? Why will he avoid - obviously avoid -
fine writing up to which he has led? This is a winking, curled-
and-oiled, ultra-cultured, Oxford-don sort of an affectation that
infuriates my honest soul. 'You see' - they say - 'how unbombastic
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