| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "Fear not. I am Belarab," said a cautious voice.
"I was not afraid," whispered Lingard. "It is the man coming in
the dark and without warning who is in danger."
"And did you not come to me without warning? I said 'welcome'--it
was as easy for me to say 'kill him.'"
"You were within reach of my arm. We would have died together,"
retorted Lingard, quietly.
The other clicked his tongue twice, and his indistinct shape
seemed to sink half-way through the floor.
"It was not written thus before we were born," he said, sitting
cross-legged near the mats, and in a deadened voice. "Therefore
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ened from hunger and maddened by thirst, knowing that
sooner or later he must slip exhausted to the ground where
waited the gaunt man-eater. Tarzan wondered if Schneider
would have the courage to descend to the little rivulet for
water should Numa leave the gulch and enter the cave, and
then he pictured the mad race for the tree again when the
lion charged out to seize his prey as he was certain to do,
since the clumsy German could not descend to the rivulet
without making at least some slight noise that would attract
Numa's attention.
But even this pleasure palled, and more and more the ape-
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: seen, and often a boulder which lay across our path presented a
serrated face that looked as though it had but just been broken
from the wall above. Still the stone was comparatively soft--time
had not yet worked its leveling finger on the surfaces that
surrounded us.
We were standing on one of these boulders when Harry came
running toward us.
"They're stopped," he cried gleefully, "at least for a little.
A piece of rock as big as a house gently slid from above onto their
precious heads. It may have blocked them off completely."
We hurried forward then; Harry helped Desiree, while I
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