| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: In his high and lofty seat
Taking empty adoration
From the subjects at his feet.
I would rather own their kisses
As at night to me they run,
Than to be the king who misses
All the simpler forms of fun.
When his dreary day is ending
He is dismally alone,
But when my sun is descending
There are joys for me to own.
Just Folks |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: words, will come out some day. And when it does, we shall find
Louise Armstrong a victim."
I had not noticed where we were going, but now I saw we were
beside the railroad, and from a knot of men standing beside the
track I divined that it was here the car had been found. The
siding, however, was empty. Except a few bits of splintered
wood on the ground, there was no sign of the accident.
"Where is the freight car that was rammed?" the doctor asked a
bystander.
"It was taken away at daylight, when the train was moved."
There was nothing to be gained. He pointed out the house on the
The Circular Staircase |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: man's head, with thick rumpled hair.
"Curious," he thought; "that looked like
Alexander, but what would he be doing back
there in the daycoaches?"
It was, indeed, Alexander.
That morning a telegram from Moorlock
had reached him, telling him that there was
serious trouble with the bridge and that he
was needed there at once, so he had caught
the first train out of New York. He had taken
a seat in a day-coach to avoid the risk of
Alexander's Bridge |
