| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: gone on ahead."
"Who is your master?" inquired the Statesman.
"He is the Statesman who saved his country," answered the Race
Horse.
"There appears to be some mistake," the other said. "Why did he
wish to travel so fast?"
"So as to be there in time to get the country that he saved."
"I guess he got it," said the other, and limped along, sighing.
An AErophobe
A CELEBRATED Divine having affirmed the fallibility of the Bible,
was asked why, then, he preached the religion founded upon it.
Fantastic Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: 'Oh' and 'Ah' when we light the candles on the Christmas tree. Now,
partner, if you'll loan us a few kids we guarantee to return 'em safe
and sound on Christmas Day. And they'll come back loaded down with a
good time and Swiss Family Robinsons and cornucopias and red drums and
similar testimonials. What do you say?"
"In other words," said the Judge, "we have discovered for the first
time in our embryonic but progressive little city the inconveniences
of the absence of adolescence. The season of the year having
approximately arrived during which it is a custom to bestow frivolous
but often appreciated gifts upon the young and tender--"
"I understand," said the parent, packing his pipe with a forefinger.
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: counsel, lest he should bewitch me and the nation and bring us to
nothing."
He paused, then turning to Goza, asked, "Did the Opener of Roads
tell you where he wished to dwell when he comes to visit me here
at Ulundi?"
"O King," answered Goza, "yonder in the hills, not further away
than an aged man can walk in the half of an hour, is a place
called the Valley of Bones, because there in the days of those
who went before the King, and even in the King's day, many
evildoers have been led to die. Zikali would dwell in this
Valley of Bones, and there and nowhere else would meet the King
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