| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: passionate gratefulness.
Then Dick's gaze, attracted by some slight sound, shot over his
friend's shoulder to see a face at the window--a handsome, bold,
sneering face, with glittering dark eyes that flashed in sinister
intentness.
Dick stiffened in his seat. Thorne, with sudden clenching of hands,
wheeled toward the window.
"Rojas!" he whispered.
Chapter II
Mercedes Castaneda
The dark face vanished. Dick Gale heard footsteps and the tinkle
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: being lukewarm about anything that pleased
her. She simply did not know how to give a
half-hearted response. When she was de-
lighted, she was as likely as not to stand on
her tip-toes and clap her hands. If people
laughed at her, she laughed with them.
"Do the men wear clothes like that every
day, in the street?" She caught Emil by his
sleeve and turned him about. "Oh, I wish I
lived where people wore things like that! Are
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "Nevertheless, speak by all means, Mr. Wilding. Whatever you may say,
you need have no fear that any of us can doubt your good intentions to
ourselves."
"I thank Your Grace. What I have to say is but a repetition of the
first words I uttered at this table. I would urge Your Grace even now
to retreat."
"What? Are you mad?" It was Lord Grey who asked the impatient question.
"I doubt it's over-late for that," said Fletcher slowly.
"I am not so sure," answered Wilding. "But I am sure that to attempt it
were the safer course - the surer in the end. I myself may not linger
to push forward the task of stirring up the people, for I am already
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