| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: "Holy Saints!" cried Edmund Wilkes. "They will kill him."
Blunt struck two more blows, both of them upon the body, and then
at last they had the poor boy down, with his face upon the ground
and his arms pinned to his sides, and Blunt, bracing himself for
the stroke, with a grin of rage raised a heavy clog for one
terrible blow that should finish the fight.
CHAPTER 9
"How now, messieurs?" said a harsh voice, that fell upon the
turmoil like a thunder-clap, and there stood Sir James Lee.
Instantly the struggle ceased, and the combatants scrambled to
their feet.
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: would be soon finished. So that I had now a double wall; and my
outer wall was thickened with pieces of timber, old cables, and
everything I could think of, to make it strong; having in it seven
little holes, about as big as I might put my arm out at. In the
inside of this I thickened my wall to about ten feet thick with
continually bringing earth out of my cave, and laying it at the
foot of the wall, and walking upon it; and through the seven holes
I contrived to plant the muskets, of which I took notice that I had
got seven on shore out of the ship; these I planted like my cannon,
and fitted them into frames, that held them like a carriage, so
that I could fire all the seven guns in two minutes' time; this
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: myself."
"Aye, aye," he meditated, intelligently. "I
suppose the old chap got around you somehow with
his soft talk. You are good-hearted."
Her hands moved up in the dark nervously.
"And it might have been true. It was true. It
has come. Here it is. This is the to-morrow we
have been waiting for."
She drew a breath, and he said, good-humour-
edly: "Aye, with the door shut. I wouldn't care
if . . . And you think he could be brought round
To-morrow |
