| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: those black waits Isaac felt no fear, he knew the strength of that arm, now
rigid and again moving with lightning swiftness; he knew the power of the eye
which guided them.
Once more out under the starry sky; rifts, shallows, narrows, and lake-like
basins were passed swiftly. At length as the sky was becoming gray in the
east, they passed into the shadow of what was called the Standing Stone. This
was a peculiarly shaped stone-faced bluff, standing high over the river, and
taking its name from Tarhe, or Standing Stone, chief of all the Hurons.
At the first sight of that well known landmark, which stood by the Wyandot
village, there mingled with Isaac's despondency and resentment some other
feeling that was akin to pleasure; with a quickening of the pulse came a
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: I go to town next month."
"Don't speak of your going away tonight," begged Diana. "I don't
want to think of it, it makes me so miserable, and I do want to
have a good time this evening. What are you going to recite, Anne?
And are you nervous?"
"Not a bit. I've recited so often in public I don't mind at all
now. I've decided to give `The Maiden's Vow.' It's so pathetic.
Laura Spencer is going to give a comic recitation, but I'd rather
make people cry than laugh."
"What will you recite if they encore you?"
"They won't dream of encoring me," scoffed Anne, who was not
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: hard by the springs, are the goodly washing-troughs of stone,
where in the time of peace before the coming of the Achaeans the
wives and fair daughters of the Trojans used to wash their
clothes. Past these did they fly, the one in front and the other
giving chase behind him: good was the man that fled, but better
far was he that followed after, and swiftly indeed did they run,
for the prize was no mere beast for sacrifice or bullock's hide,
as it might be for a common foot-race, but they ran for the life
of Hector. As horses in a chariot race speed round the
turning-posts when they are running for some great prize--a
tripod or woman--at the games in honour of some dead hero, so did
The Iliad |
