| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: shot at a deer.
Fortunately my pen-knife had a fair-sized blade. With it I decided to cut
out part of the deer and carry it back to my camp. Then it occurred to me
that I might as well camp where I was. There were several jumbles of rock
and a cliff within a stone's-throw of where I stood. Besides, I must get
used to making camp wherever I happened to be. Accordingly, I took hold of
the deer, and dragged him down the hollow till I came to a leaning slab of
rock.
Skinning a deer was, of course, new to me. I haggled the flesh somewhat and
cut through the skin often, my knife-blade being much too small for such
work. Finally I thought it would be enough for me to cut out the haunches,
The Young Forester |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest --
I too awaited the expected guest. 230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: on a cold stone to reconsider himself, and so forth?
Not a bit. You may watch her at work if you know where to find
her. But you will never see her do that. For, if she had, she
knew quite well Tom would have fought, and kicked, and bit, and
said bad words, and turned again that moment into a naughty little
heathen chimney-sweep, with his hand, like Ishmael's of old,
against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Did she question him, hurry him, frighten him, threaten him, to
make him confess? Not a bit. You may see her, as I said, at her
work often enough if you know where to look for her: but you will
never see her do that. For, if she had, she would have tempted him
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