| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: I had surmounted what I took to be the first foot-hill, I came upon a
magnificent forest. A little farther on the trail walled me in with great
seamed trunks, six feet in diameter, rising a hundred feet before spreading
a single branch.
Meanwhile my mustang kept steadily up the slow-rising trail, and the time
passed. Either the grand old forest had completely bewitched me or the
sweet smell of pine had intoxicated me, for as I rode along utterly content
I entirely forgot about Dick and the trail and where I was heading. Nor did
I come to my senses until Hal snorted and stopped before a tangled
windfall.
Then I glanced down to see only the clean, brown pine-needles. There was no
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: cries of joy; then their jubilation tamed sinister and they
gave vent to threats, oaths and imprecations.
"Of course, we can't ten how strong they are," said
Demetrio as his glance traveled over their faces in
scrutiny.
"Do you remember Medina? Out there at Hos-
totipaquillo, he only had a half a dozen men with knives
that they sharpened on a grindstone. Well, he held back
the soldiers and the police, didn't he? And he beat them,
too."
"We're every bit as good as Medina's crowd!" said a
The Underdogs |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: "I grow fat upon it," he replied; and not merely the words, which
were strange enough, but the whole character of his expression,
shocked me.
"I warn you, my lord, against this indulgency of evil feeling,"
said I. "I know not to which it is more perilous, the soul or the
reason; but you go the way to murder both."
"You cannot understand," said he. "You had never such mountains of
bitterness upon your heart."
"And if it were no more," I added, "you will surely goad the man to
some extremity."
"To the contrary; I am breaking his spirit," says my lord.
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