| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: seen?"
"It is full time that boy went to herding," said the head-man,
while Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli's impertinence.
The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take
the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morning, and
bring them back at night. The very cattle that would trample a
white man to death allow themselves to be banged and bullied and
shouted at by children that hardly come up to their noses. So
long as the boys keep with the herds they are safe, for not even
the tiger will charge a mob of cattle. But if they straggle to
pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off.
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: in tears and the bereaved feminine relatives screaming with grief.
The neighbors would have been shocked, aggrieved and indignant, had
these brief prayers been all the service over the body of their
loved friend, and no one knew this better than Ashley. The matter
would be discussed at dinner tables for weeks and the opinion of
the County would be that the O'Hara girls had not shown proper
respect for their father.
So he threw a quick apologetic glance at Carreen and, bowing his
head again, began reciting from memory the Episcopal burial service
which he had often read over slaves buried at Twelve Oaks.
"I am the Resurrection and the Life . . . and whosoever . . .
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: 'It sounds promising,' said Lady Chichele to me.
'It sounds cryptic,' I laughed to Somers, but I saw that he had the
key.
I can not say that I attended diligently to Mr. Chichele's socks,
but the part corresponding was freely assigned me. After his people
went I saw him often. He pretended to find qualities in my tea,
implied that he found them in my talk. As a matter of fact it was
my inquiring attitude that he loved, the knowledge that there was no
detail that he could give me about himself, his impressions and
experiences, that was unlikely to interest me. I would not for the
world imply that he was egotistical or complacent, absolutely the
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