| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: bleachers. ``He's from Slumbertown, all right, all
right!'' shouted another.
Duveen sent up another ball, high and swift.
Burt hit straight over the first baseman, a line
drive that struck the front of the right-field
bleachers.
``Peacherino!'' howled a fan.
Here the promise of Burt's speed was fulfilled.
Run! He was fleet as a deer. He cut through
first like the wind, settled to a driving strides
rounded second, and by a good, long slide beat
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: her grief with childish wistfulness. He found, too, that her family
depended on him rather than on Leslie Ward for moral support. It
was to him that Walter Wheeler looked for assurance that the father
had had no indirect responsibility for the son's death; it was to
him that Jim's mother, lying gray-faced and listless in her bed or
on her couch, brought her anxious questionings. Had Jim suffered?
Could they have avoided it? And an insistent demand to know who and
what had been the girl who was with him.
In spite of his own feeling that he would have to go to Norada
quickly, before David became impatient over his exile, Dick took a
few hours to find the answer to that question. But when he found
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: necromancy, and know all about algebra and geometry, and yet,
wise as I am, I never thought of this little thing."
That is the way with your wise man.
"Pooh!" said Babo; "that is nothing. I know how to do many more
tricks than that."
"Do you?" said Simon Agricola; "then listen: to-morrow I am going
out into the world to make my fortune, for little or nothing is
to be had in this town. If you will go along with me I will make
your fortune also."
"Very well," said Babo, and the bargain was struck. So the next
morning bright and early off they started upon their journey,
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