| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved; so I said,
'Hush, Tom! never mind it, for, when your head's bare,
You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair.'
And so he was quiet, and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight! -
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
And by came an angel, who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins, and set them all free;
Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run
And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: in---"
"Spang!"
The whistling of a bullet over the heads of the Christians accompanied the
loud report of a rifle. All presently plainly heard the leaden missile strike.
Edwards wheeled, clutching his side, breathed hard, and then fell heavily
without uttering a cry. He had been shot by an Indian concealed in the
thicket.
For a moment no one moved, nor spoke. the missionaries were stricken with
horror; the converts seemed turned to stone, and the hostile throng waited
silently, as they had for hours.
"He's shot! He's shot! Oh, I feared this!" cried Heckewelder, running forward.
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: made enough money to have ham and eggs for his
breakfast every morning. He thanked God for it,
in a fiendish tone as though he were cursing.
Captain Hagberd had been so unfavourably im-
pressed by his tenant, that once he told Miss Bes-
sie, "He is a very extravagant fellow, my dear."
She was knitting that day, finishing a pair of
socks for her father, who expected her to keep up
the supply dutifully. She hated knitting, and, as
she was just at the heel part, she had to keep her
eyes on her needles.
To-morrow |
