| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "....It's overland and overland and overseas to--where?"
"Most anywhere that isn't here," I says. His face went kind of queer.
"The place we're in is always here. The other place is there."
Bridge stretched luxuriously. "'There,'" he repeated. "I've
been searching for THERE for many years; but for some reason
I can never get away from HERE. About two weeks of any
place on earth and that place is just plain HERE to me, and I'm
longing once again for THERE."
His musings were interrupted by a sweet feminine voice
close by. Bridge did not open his eyes at once--he just sat
there, listening.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: snow-water from the mountain-peaks had changed from cold to warm; still, it
gave a relief from the hot blast of air. More time dragged by. Weary to the
point of collapse, I grew not to care about anything.
Then the yellow fog lightened, and blew across the brook and lifted and
split. The parts of the canyon-slope that I could see were seared and
blackened. The pines were columns of living coals. The fire was eating into
their hearts. Presently they would snap at the trunk, crash down, and burn
to ashes. Wreathes of murky smoke circled them, and drifted aloft to join
the overhanging clouds.
I floundered out on the bank, and began to walk up-stream. After all, it
was not so very hot, but I felt queer. I did not seem to be able to step
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: glorious, electric light burning above its gold-lacquered
fittings, reposed the bath of baths, a veritable monarch, with
his attendant basin, marble-topped table, gilded towel-rails,
etc., etc.
Attracted by the aristocracy upon the dais, I was proceeding to
stroll humbly in their direction, when I heard the sound of
footsteps. The next moment a girl stepped lightly between great
sliding iron doors, which led obviously from an adjoining chamber
on the same floor.
Very smart she was, in a black cloth coat with ermine collar and
cuffs. On her head was a trim black hat from which a fine brooch
The Brother of Daphne |
