| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: I don't focus it. I can't name it. I only know I'm exposed."
"Yes, but exposed--how shall I say?--so directly. So intimately.
That's surely enough."
"Enough to make you feel then--as what we may call the end and the
upshot of our watch--that I'm not afraid?"
"You're not afraid. But it isn't," she said, "the end of our
watch. That is it isn't the end of yours. You've everything still
to see."
"Then why haven't you?" he asked. He had had, all along, to-day,
the sense of her keeping something back, and he still had it. As
this was his first impression of that it quite made a date. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the man upon whom she had been looking as her sole
protector in the midst of a world of enemies and
dangers.
On the march a separate tent had been provided for the
captive, and at night it was pitched between those of
Mohammed Beyd and Werper. A sentry was posted at the
front and another at the back, and with these
precautions it had not been thought necessary to
confine the prisoner to bonds. The evening following
her interview with Mohammed Beyd, Jane Clayton sat for
some time at the opening of her tent watching the rough
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: ridge.
Then upon Duane fell the crushing burden of the old waiting,
watching, listening spell. After all, it was not to end just
now. His chance still persisted--looked a little brighter--led
him on, perhaps, to forlorn hope.
All at once twilight settled quickly down upon the willow
brake, or else Duane noted it suddenly. He imagined it to be
caused by the approaching storm. But there was little movement
of air or cloud, and thunder still muttered and rumbled at a
distance. The fact was the sun had set, and at this time of
overcast sky night was at hand.
The Lone Star Ranger |
