| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: another, though I could not see who lit them, and the room was a
flare of light. Now the altar, the victim, and the priests were
all gone, there was no one left in the place except myself and the
four brides. They were tall and lovely women all of them, clad in
white bridal robes starred over with gems and flowers, and wearing
on their brows the emblems of the four goddesses, but Otomie was
the stateliest and most beautiful of the four, and seemed in truth
a goddess. One by one they drew near to me, smiling and sighing,
and kneeling before me kissed my hand, saying:
'I have been chosen to be your wife for a space, Tezcat, happy maid
that I am. May the good gods grant that I become pleasing to your
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: "Then pull steady," said Fairway.
They gathered up more and more, till a regular dripping
into the well could be heard below. It grew smarter
with the increasing height of the bucket, and presently
a hundred and fifty feet of rope had been pulled in.
Fairway then lit a lantern, tied it to another cord,
and began lowering it into the well beside the first:
Clym came forward and looked down. Strange humid leaves,
which knew nothing of the seasons of the year,
and quaint-natured mosses were revealed on the wellside
as the lantern descended; till its rays fell upon a
Return of the Native |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: from the mine coughed and strangled at short intervals.
McTeague tended the chuck. In a way he was the assistant of
the man who worked the Burly. It was his duty to replace
the drills in the Burly, putting in longer ones as the hole
got deeper and deeper. From time to time he rapped the
drill with a pole-pick when it stuck fast or fitchered.
Once it even occurred to him that there was a resemblance
between his present work and the profession he had been
forced to abandon. In the Burly drill he saw a queer
counterpart of his old-time dental engine; and what were the
drills and chucks but enormous hoe excavators, hard bits,
McTeague |
