| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that such a thing must never again occur--that no man was to be
struck or otherwise punished other than in due process of the
laws that we had made and the court that we had established.
All the time the sailor stood rigidly at attention, nor could I
tell from his expression whether he most resented the blow his
officer had struck him or my interference in the gospel of the
Kaiser-breed. Nor did he move until I said to him: "Plesser, you
may return to your quarters and dress your wound." Then he
saluted and marched stiffly off toward the U-33.
Just before dusk we moved out into the bay a hundred yards from
shore and dropped anchor, for I felt that we should be safer
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: (for I verily think he was not full thirty feet high), became so
insolent at seeing a creature so much beneath him, that he would
always affect to swagger and look big as he passed by me in the
queen's antechamber, while I was standing on some table talking
with the lords or ladies of the court, and he seldom failed of a
smart word or two upon my littleness; against which I could only
revenge myself by calling him brother, challenging him to
wrestle, and such repartees as are usually in the mouths of court
pages. One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was so
nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself
upon the frame of her majesty's chair, he took me up by the
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: spring, but not too deep to interfere with the work. Orde increased
his woods force; and, contrary to his custom, he drove them
mercilessly. He was that winter his own walking-boss, and lived
constantly in the woods. The Rough Red had charge of the banking,
where his aggressive, brutal personality kept the rollways free from
congestion. For congestion there means delay in unloading the
sleighs; and that in turn means a drag in the woods work near the
skidways at the other end of the line. Tom North and Tim Nolan and
Johnny Sims and Jim Denning were foremen back in the forest. Every
one had an idea, more or less vague, that the Old Fellow had his
back to the wall. Late into the night the rude torches, made quite
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