| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wings
The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable,
Nisus with mighty whirr through heaven pursues;
Where Nisus heavenward soareth, there her wings
Clutch as she flies, the light air winnowing still.
Soft then the voice of rooks from indrawn throat
Thrice, four times, o'er repeated, and full oft
On their high cradles, by some hidden joy
Gladdened beyond their wont, in bustling throngs
Among the leaves they riot; so sweet it is,
When showers are spent, their own loved nests again
Georgics |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: but Alloway never chirped. He's not the talkin' kind, an' he's
damn dangerous when he's thet way. Bland asked me some
questions right from the shoulder. I was ready for them, an' I
swore the moon was green cheese. He was satisfied. Bland always
trusted me, an' liked me, too, I reckon. I hated to lie black
thet way. But he's a hard man with bad intentions toward
Jennie, an' I'd double-cross him any day.
"Then we went into the house. Jennie had gone to her little
room, an' Bland called her to come out. She said she was
undressin'. An' he ordered her to put her clothes back on.
Then, Buck, his next move was some surprisin'. He deliberately
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: months. It had now also, for the first time, got some
inhabitants of the feathered tribe: in particular the scarth
or cormorant, and the large herring-gull, had made the beacon
a resting-place, from its vicinity to their fishing-grounds.
About a dozen of these birds had rested upon the cross-beams,
which, in some places, were coated with their dung; and their
flight, as the boats approached, was a very unlooked-for
indication of life and habitation on the Bell Rock, conveying
the momentary idea of the conversion of this fatal rock, from
being a terror to the mariner, into a residence of man and a
safeguard to shipping.
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