| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: asparagus branch aside, and looked out, with her little hands folded about
her knees. She heard the thunder rolling, and saw the red torrents rush
among the stones on their way to the river. She heard the roar of the
river as it now rolled, angry and red, bearing away stumps and trees on its
muddy water. She listened and smiled, and pressed closer to the rock that
took care of her. She pressed the palm of her hand against it. When you
have no one to love you, you love the dumb things very much. When the sun
set, it cleared up. Then the little girl ate some kippersol, and lay down
again to sleep. She thought there was nothing so nice as to sleep. When
one has had no food but kippersol juice for two days, one doesn't feel
strong.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: but painfully reminded her of something she wished to forget.
This cowboy bent his head and kissed her hands and wrung them,
and when he straightened up he was crying.
"Miss Hammond, she's safe an' almost well, an' what I feared most
ain't so, thank God," he cried. "Sure I'll never be able to pay
you for all you've done for her. She's told me how she was
dragged down here, how Gene tried to save her, how you spoke up
for Gene an' her, too, how Monty at the last throwed his guns.
Poor Monty! We were good friends, Monty an' I. But it wasn't
friendship for me that made Monty stand in there. He would have
saved her, anyway. Monty Price was the whitest man I ever knew.
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane.
They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm,
because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass
undigested through the body of a bird.
Chapter 6
It had happened at last. The expected message had come. All his life, it
seemed to him, he had been waiting for this to happen.
He was walking down the long corridor at the Ministry and he was almost
at the spot where Julia had slipped the note into his hand when he became
aware that someone larger than himself was walking just behind him. The
person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to
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