| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: burned him. As he stepped forward with a half-formed thought that
she was absorbed in watching for his return, she turned her head
and saw him. A swift start, a change rather than rush of blood
under her white cheeks, a flashing of big eyes that fixed their
glance upon him, transformed her face in that single instant of
turning, and he knew she had been watching for him, that his
return was the one thing in her mind. She did not smile; she did
not flush; she did not look glad. All these would have meant
little compared to her indefinite expression. Venters grasped the
peculiar, vivid, vital something that leaped from her face. It
was as if she had been in a dead, hopeless clamp of inaction and
Riders of the Purple Sage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: defiance and contempt in the single word:
"Cowards!"
"What means this, girl?" demanded De Montfort,
"Art gone stark mad? Know thou that this fellow be
the Outlaw of Torn?"
"If I had not before known it, My Lord," she replied
haughtily, "it would be plain to me now as I see forty
cowards hesitating to attack a lone man. What other
man in all England could stand thus against forty? A
lion at bay with forty jackals yelping at his feet."
"Enough, girl," cried the King, "what be this knave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: the conduct of Reed, M'Lellan, and M'Kenzie, had parted from them
at the Caldron Linn. These had reached Astoria nearly a month
previously, and, judging from their own narrow escape from
starvation, had given up Mr. Hunt and his followers as lost.
Their greeting was the more warm and cordial. As to the Canadian
voyageurs, their mutual felicitations, as usual, were loud and
vociferous, and it was almost ludicrous to behold these ancient
"comrades" and "confreres," hugging and kissing each other on the
river bank.
When the first greetings were over, the different bands
interchanged accounts of their several wanderings, after
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