| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: they still continued to see way-marks now to the left and now
to the right of them.
So they travelled on for about ten minutes, when suddenly,
through the slanting screen of wind-driven snow, something
black showed up which moved in front of the horse.
This was another sledge with fellow-travellers. Mukhorty
overtook them, and struck his hoofs against the back of the
sledge in front of them.
'Pass on . . . hey there . . . get in front!' cried voices from
the sledge.
Vasili Andreevich swerved aside to pass the other sledge.
Master and Man |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: leg, and before Tarzan of the Apes, lightning though he was,
could turn to save himself he had been pitched over the low
rail and was falling into the Atlantic.
Hazel Strong was looking from her darkened port across
the dark sea. Suddenly a body shot past her eyes from
the deck above. It dropped so quickly into the dark waters
below that she could not be sure of what it was--it might
have been a man, she could not say. She listened for some
outcry from above--for the always-fearsome call, "Man overboard!"
but it did not come. All was silence on the ship above--all
was silence in the sea below.
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: sailed for home and happiness. But having heard them it seemed to
me, to my undoing, that this would be to play the part of a sorry
coward. Moreover, strange as it may look, now I felt as though I
had two wrongs to avenge, that of my mother and that of Isabella de
Siguenza. Indeed none could have seen that young and lovely lady
die thus terribly and not desire to wreak her death on him who had
betrayed and deserted her.
So the end of it was that being of a stubborn temper, I determined
to do violence to my own desires and the dying counsels of my
benefactor, and to follow de Garcia to the ends of the earth and
there to kill him as I had sworn to do.
Montezuma's Daughter |
