| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Billy scratched his head, and blinked his eyes. He never
before had been spoken to in any such fashion--at least not
since he had put on the avoirdupois of manhood. His head
ached horribly and he was sick to his stomach--frightfully
sick. His mind was more upon his physical suffering than
upon what the mate was saying, so that quite a perceptible
interval of time elapsed before the true dimensions of the
affront to his dignity commenced to percolate into the befogged
and pain-racked convolutions of his brain.
The mate thought that his bluster had bluffed the new
hand. That was what he had come below to accomplish.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: said he never could seem to enjoy music somehow. The fact was, I
was beginning to feel the same way; but I didn't say anything. Him
and I had a considerable long silence, then, but of course it
warn't noticeable in that place. After about sixteen or seventeen
hours, during which I played and sung a little, now and then -
always the same tune, because I didn't know any other - I laid down
my harp and begun to fan myself with my palm branch. Then we both
got to sighing pretty regular. Finally, says he -
"Don't you know any tune but the one you've been pegging at all
day?"
"Not another blessed one," says I.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: stood tottering before the rifle barrel, he called
out: "Why, hello, Wilson, you--you here?"
The rifle was lowered to a position of caution
and the loud soldier came slowly forward. He
peered into the youth's face. "That you,
Henry?"
"Yes, it's--it's me."
"Well, well, ol' boy," said the other, "by
ginger, I'm glad t' see yeh! I give yeh up
fer a goner. I thought yeh was dead sure
enough." There was husky emotion in his
The Red Badge of Courage |
