| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: kill um."
"He'll sure last as far as Pelly," Daylight grinned.
Kama shook his head doubtfully, and rolled over on his side,
turning his back in token of farewell.
Daylight won across Chilcoot that same day, dropping down five
hundred feet in the darkness and the flurrying snow to Crater
Lake, where he camped. It was a 'cold' camp, far above the
timber-line, and he had not burdened his sled with firewood.
That night three feet of snow covered them, and in the black
morning, when they dug themselves out, the Indian tried to
desert. He had had enough of traveling with what he considered a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: thought of how he had eaten his breakfast. How would he eat his
supper? For supper would come afterward. Some people were eating
theirs now, with nothing like this before them. His heart ached
and grew cold to think of them, easy and comfortable with plates
and cups of coffee.
He looked at the mountains, and saw the sun above their ridges,
and the shadow coming from their feet. And there close behind him
was the morning he could never go back to. He could see it
clearly; his thoughts reached out like arms to touch it once
more, and be in it again. The night that was coming he could not
see, and his eyes and his thoughts shrank from it. He had given
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: position opposite to him. This fire was fed with some kind of
root or wood that gave a thin clear flame with little or no
smoke. Over it he crouched, so closely that his great head
seemed to be almost in the flame at which he stared with
unblinking eyes as he had done at the sun, circumstances which
added to his terrifying appearance and made me think of a certain
region and its inhabitants.
"Why do you come here, Macumazahn?" he asked after studying me
for a while through that window of fire.
"Because you brought me, Zikali, partly through your messenger,
Nombe, and partly by means of a dream which she says you sent."
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