| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: yours, not mine."
To myself I reflected, however, that with these two opponents we
had about as much chance of winning as a snowflake has of
resisting the atmosphere of the lower regions.
Presently they returned with the table, which had a green cloth
over it that hung down half-way to the ground. Also one of the
native boys brought a tray with spirits, from which I judged by
various signs, old Marnham, who had already drunk his share at
dinner, had helped himself freely on the way. Soon we were
arranged, Anscombe, who was to be my partner, opposite to me in
his long chair, and the game began.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: these chiefs be interested, moved, the whole western world of Indians might be
civilized.
Hepote, a Maumee chief, of whom it was said he had never listened to words of
the paleface, had the central position in this circle. On his right and left,
respectively, sat Shaushoto and Pipe, implacable foes of all white men. The
latter's aspect did not belie his reputation. His copper-colored, repulsive
visage compelled fear; it breathed vindictiveness and malignity. A singular
action of his was that he always, in what must have been his arrogant vanity,
turned his profile to those who watched him, and it was a remarkable one; it
sloped in an oblique line from the top of his forehead to his protruding chin,
resembling somewhat the carved bowl of his pipe, which was of flint and a
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: had to be made, and I was charged, not three prices, but seven
prices.
"I never shall know how much Ericson got out of it. He lived
ashore in a nicely furnished house. The shipwrights were giving it
to him rent-free. Fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, and ice came to
this house every day, and he paid for none of it. It was part of
his graft from the various merchants. And all the while, with
tears in his eyes, he bemoaned the vile treatment I was receiving
from the gang. No, I did not fall among thieves. I went to
Tahiti.
"But when the robbers fell to cheating one another, I got my first
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