| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: But you shall see."
From the moment I rang the Knapf doorbell I saw. The
dapper, cheerful Herr Knapf, wearing a disappointed
Kaiser Wilhelm mustache, opened the door. I scarcely had
begun to make my wishes known when he interrupted with a
large wave of the hand, and an elaborate German bow.
"Ach yes! You would be the lady of whom the Herr
Doktor has spoken. Gewiss! Frau Orme, not? But so a
young lady I did not expect to see. A room we have saved
for you--aber wunderhubsch! It makes me much pleasure to
show. Folgen Sie mir, bitte."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: saddle. An' find a patch of grass fer him at night. The pony'll stick to
him."
Cless fell to packing a lean pack-pony.
"Watch me do this," said he; "you'll hev trouble if you don't git the hang
of the diamondhitch."
I watched him set the little wooden criss-cross on the pony's back, throw
the balance of my outfit (which he had tied up in a canvas) over the
saddle, and then pass a long rope in remarkable turns and wonderful loops
round pony and pack.
"What's the mustang's name?" I inquired.
"Never had any," replied the former owner.
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: The things themselves must likewise changed be.
Now to true reason give thy mind for us.
Since here strange truth is putting forth its might
To hit thee in thine ears, a new aspect
Of things to show its front. Yet naught there is
So easy that it standeth not at first
More hard to credit than it after is;
And naught soe'er that's great to such degree,
Nor wonderful so far, but all mankind
Little by little abandon their surprise.
Look upward yonder at the bright clear sky
Of The Nature of Things |
