| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: up close to the count, dismounted, and threw the bridle to a
groom standing by. "Well," said the count, "what do you
think of it, M. de Malicorne?"
"This horse, monsieur le comte, is of the Mecklenburg breed.
In looking whether the bit suited his mouth, I saw that he
was rising seven, the very age when the training of a horse
intended for a charger should commence. The forehand is
light. A horse which holds its head high, it is said, never
tires his rider's hand. The withers are rather low. The
drooping of the hindquarters would almost make me doubt the
purity of its German breed, and I think there is English
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: this scene. When you bring a horse back to where he has recently
encountered a wild animal his ears and his nostrils are apt to be
wide awake.
The Virginian had stopped and was beckoning to me.
"Here's your bear," said he, as I arrived. "Two-legged, you see.
And he had a hawss of his own." There was a stake driven down
where an animal had been picketed for the night.
"Looks like Ounces," I said, considering the Footprints.
"It's Ounces. And Ounces wanted another hawss very bad, so him
and Pounds could travel like gentlemen should."
"But Pounds doesn't seem to have been with him."
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: his
little paradise.
We stood on the platform arguing the matter, when I suddenly
became aware of that indistinct flutter and bustle seen in public
places at some unusual happening or the unexpected arrival of a
great personage.
I turned and saw that which was worthy of the interest it had
excited.
In the first place, the daintiest little electric brougham in
the world, fragile and delicate as a toy--a fairy's chariot.
Then
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