| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: bar, watching, listening, recording. The excitement had
preceded him, and speculation was rife. He thought best to keep
out of it. After dark he stole up to Longstreth's ranch. The
evening was warm; the doors were open; and in the twilight the
only lamps that had been lit were in Longstreth's big sitting-
room, at the far end of the house. When a buckboard drove up
and Longstreth and Lawson alighted, Duane was well hidden in
the bushes, so well screened that he could get but a fleeting
glimpse of Longstreth as he went in. For all Duane could see,
he appeared to be a calm and quiet man, intense beneath the
surface, with an air of dignity under insult. Duane's chance to
The Lone Star Ranger |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: Call them by their fathers' names; that is more just in God's sight;
but if ye know not their fathers, then they are your brothers in
religion and your clients. There is no crime against you for what
mistakes ye make therein; but what your hearts do purposely-but God is
ever forgiving and merciful.
The prophet is nearer of kin to the believers than themselves, and
his wives are their mothers. And blood relations are nearer in kin
to each other by the Book of God than the believers and those who
fled; only your doing kindness to your kindred, that is traced in
the Book.
And when we took of the prophets their compact, from thee and from
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: he succeeded at last; and only left him when, two years later, he
had handed him over to the charge of a bright-eyed Western girl, to
whom the whole story had been told, and who showed herself ready
and anxious to help in building up again the broken life of her
English lover. To judge from the letters that we have since
received, she has shown herself well fitted for the task. Among
other things she has money, and Jack's worldly affairs have so
prospered that George declares that he can well afford now to waste
some of his superfluous cash upon farming a few of his elder
brother's acres. The idea seems to smile upon Jack, and I have
every hope this winter of being able to institute an actual
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