| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: thick.
From the third floor a straight flight of steps led upward to a
closed door, from the other side of which shone the dazzling
brightness of sunlight, and whence came a strange noise--a soft
rustling, a melodious murmur. The boys put their shoulders
against the door, which was fastened, and pushed with might and
main--once, twice; suddenly the lock gave way, and out they
pitched headlong into a blaze of sunlight. A deafening clapping
and uproar sounded in their ears, and scores of pigeons, suddenly
disturbed, rose in stormy flight.
They sat up and looked around them in silent wonder. They were in
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the mighty thoat is the face of my son--Carthoris of Helium.
At his side fights a huge Martian war-hound, nor did I need a
second look to know that it was Woola--my faithful Woola who had
thus well performed his arduous task and brought the succoring
legions in the nick of time.
"In the nick of time?"
Who yet might say that they were not too late to save, but surely
they could avenge! And such retribution as that unconquered army
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: however, it became romantic - a part of the general romance of her
freedom, her errand, her innocence. The confidence of young
Americans was notorious, and I speedily arrived at a conviction
that no impulse could have been more generous than the impulse that
had operated here. I foresaw at that moment that it would make her
my peculiar charge, just as circumstances had made Neil Paraday.
She would be another person to look after, so that one's honour
would be concerned in guiding her straight. These things became
clearer to me later on; at the instant I had scepticism enough to
observe to her, as I turned the pages of her volume, that her net
had all the same caught many a big fish. She appeared to have had
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