| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: To thee--how full of happiness?
How little fraught with real ill,
Or unreal phantoms of distress!
How spring can bring thee glory, yet,
And summer win thee to forget
December's sullen time!
Why dost thou hold the treasure fast,
Of youth's delight, when youth is past,
And thou art near thy prime?
When those who were thy own compeers,
Equals in fortune and in years,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: his hands up.
"It is known that Buck Duane is here. Captain MacNelly's
camping on the river just out of town. He sends word to Duane
to come out there after dark."
The stranger wheeled and departed as swiftly and strangely as
he had come.
"Bust me! Duane, whatever do you make of that?" exclaimed
Jones.
"A new one on me," replied Duane, thoughtfully.
"First fool thing I ever heard of MacNelly doing. Can't make
head nor tails of it. I'd have said offhand that MacNelly
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: and adventures had traveled hand in hand through many canons even
to the heart of the Tetons. It had been on Skunk Creek that he
had heard of her three days before, and now he had come to verify
the tongue of rumor, to see her quite casually, of course, and do
his own appraising. It began to look as if he were going to have
to ride off without a glimpse of her.
He nodded toward the house, turning a shade more purple than his
native choleric hue. "Y'u want to bring your boss with y'u, Mac.
We been hearing a right smart lot about her and the boys would
admire to have her present. It's going to be strictly according
to Hoyle--no rough-house plays go, y'understand."
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