| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies,
and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest
Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"
They had reached the end of the gallery, and with
tears of shame she ran off to her own room.
CHAPTER 25
The visions of romance were over. Catherine was
completely awakened. Henry's address, short as it had been,
had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her
late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.
Most grievously was she humbled. Most bitterly did she cry.
Northanger Abbey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: "She IS too intelligent--she's not their slave."
Madame Olenska looked at him. "Well, then--I don't
understand."
Archer reddened, and hurried on with a rush. "We
had a frank talk--almost the first. She thinks my
impatience a bad sign."
"Merciful heavens--a bad sign?"
"She thinks it means that I can't trust myself to go
on caring for her. She thinks, in short, I want to marry
her at once to get away from some one that I--care for
more."
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: the bunk-house door behind which he suspected were at least two
men determined on his death by treachery.
Neil came to the door in answer to his knock and within he could
see the villainous faces at bloodshot eyes of two of the others
peering at him.
"Good mo'ning, Captain Neil. I'm on my way to keep that
appointment I mentioned last night I'd ce'tainly be glad to have
you go along. Nothing like being on the spot to prevent
double-crossing."
"I'm with you in the fling of a cow's tail. Come on, boys."
"I think not. You and I will go alone."
|
