| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: large; many-sided, of vast sympathies, who understood with equal
intelligence, the human nature in an habitual drunkard, the
ethics of a masterpiece of painting, and the financiering and
operation of ten thousand miles of railroad.
"I had never looked at it in just that light," repeated Presley.
"There is a great deal in what you say."
"If I am to listen," continued Shelgrim, "to that kind of talk, I
prefer to listen to it first hand. I would rather listen to what
the great French painter has to say, than to what YOU have to say
about what he has already said."
His speech, loud and emphatic at first, when the idea of what he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: disappeared, his body becoming absolutely invisible, while his coarse
red countenance stared back from the mirror.
And then Prince Marvel gave a sigh of relief and dropped the curtain
over the surface of the mirror. For he realized that the Red Rogue of
Dawna had at last met with just punishment and was safely imprisoned
for all time.
25. The Adventurers Separate
When Prince Marvel and his friends had ridden away from the castle the
savage followers of the Red One came creeping up to listen for their
master's voice. But silence reigned in every part of the castle, and
after stealing fearfully through the rooms without seeing any one the
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: endowed with the powers of a god, we should find ourselves not
much nearer what we wanted at the end. O toiling hands of
mortals! O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither!
Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some
conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the
setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye
know your own blessednes; for to travel hopefully is a better
thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
CHAPTER VII - THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS
"Whether it be wise in men to do such actions or no, I am
sure it is so in States to honour them." - SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE.
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