| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rays which would presently sweep them away again into the
nothingness from which they had sprung.
Bridge halted and stretched himself. He threw his head back
and let the warm sun beat down upon his bronzed face.
There's sunshine in the heart of me,
My blood sings in the breeze;
The mountains are a part of me,
I'm fellow to the trees.
My golden youth I'm squandering,
Sun-libertine am I,
A-wandering, a-wandering,
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: assayer hard at it in our dining-room; the carts below on the
road, and their cargo of red mineral bounding and thundering
down the iron chute. And now all gone - all fallen away into
this sunny silence and desertion: a family of squatters
dining in the assayer's office, making their beds in the big
sleeping room erstwhile so crowded, keeping their wine in the
tunnel that once rang with picks.
But Silverado itself, although now fallen in its turn into
decay, was once but a mushroom, and had succeeded to other
mines and other flitting cities. Twenty years ago, away down
the glen on the Lake County side there was a place, Jonestown
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: and lurid contrasts from the window of a large hotel near London
Bridge. The visit to their friends at St. Leonards is over, and
they are staying a day or two in the metropolis on their way home.
Knight spent the same interval of time in crossing over to
Brittany by way of Jersey and St. Malo. He then passed through
Normandy, and returned to London also, his arrival there having
been two days later than that of Elfride and her parents.
So the evening of this October day saw them all meeting at the
above-mentioned hotel, where they had previously engaged
apartments. During the afternoon Knight had been to his lodgings
at Richmond to make a little change in the nature of his baggage;
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
