| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: one tall, pale lady, wrapped in a white shawl, leaned on a younger lady,
with dark eyes and a merry face; the other, a very stately-looking person,
was Miss Blomefield. They all came and looked at me and asked questions.
The younger lady -- that was Miss Ellen -- took to me very much;
she said she was sure she should like me, I had such a good face.
The tall, pale lady said that she should always be nervous
in riding behind a horse that had once been down, as I might come down again,
and if I did she should never get over the fright.
"You see, ladies," said Mr. Thoroughgood, "many first-rate horses
have had their knees broken through the carelessness of their drivers
without any fault of their own, and from what I see of this horse
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: Carol was in a low chair, framed and haloed by the window
behind her, an image in pale gold. The baby curled in her
lap, his head on her arm, listening with gravity while she
sang from Gene Field:
'Tis little Luddy-Dud in the morning--
'Tis little Luddy-Dud at night:
And all day long
'Tis the same dear song
Of that growing, crowing, knowing little sprite.
Kennicott was enchanted.
"Maud Dyer? I should say not!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: her--you'll kill her."
"The TRUTH!" hissed Bland.
"Yes. I lied. Jen lied. But she lied to save me. You
needn't--murder her--for that."
Bland cursed horribly. Then followed a wrestling sound of
bodies in violent straining contact--the scrape of feet--the
jangle of spurs--a crash of sliding table or chair, and then
the cry of a woman in pain.
Duane stepped into the open door, inside the room. Kate Bland
lay half across a table where she had been flung, and she was
trying to get to her feet. Bland's back was turned. He had
The Lone Star Ranger |
