| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I glanced at the chronometer.
"Half after twelve. We have been out seventy-two hours,
so it must be midnight. Nevertheless I am going to have
a look at the blessed sky that I had given up all hope
of ever seeing again," and so saying I lifted the bars
from the inner door, and swung it open. There was quite
a quantity of loose material in the jacket, and this I
had to remove with a shovel to get at the opposite door
in the outer shell.
In a short time I had removed enough of the earth and rock
to the floor of the cabin to expose the door beyond.
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: over-wary foreign manufacturers. That she had successfully
accomplished this, and that she had managed to impress them
also with the important part that time and promptness in
delivery played in a swift-moving machine like the Haynes-
Cooper concern, was due to many things beside her natural
business ability. Self-confidence was there, and
physical vigor, and diplomacy. But above all
there was that sheer love of the game; the dramatic sense
that enabled her to see herself in the part. That alone
precluded the possibility of failure. She knew how youthful
she looked, and how glowing. She anticipated the look that
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: cannot name it. It is just blind drive. I admit its
discontent with pleasure as an end--but has it any end of its
own? At the most you can say that the rage in life is seeking
its desire and hasn't found it."
"Let us help in the search," said the doctor, with an
afternoon smile under his green umbrella. "Go on."
Section 2
"Since our first talk in Harley Street," said Sir Richmond,
"I have been trying myself over in my mind. (We can drift
down this backwater.) "
"Big these trees are," said the doctor with infinite
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