| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: For a moment, the old woman's ghastly conception so engrossed the
minds of her hearers that a sound abroad in the night, rising
like the roar of a blast, had grown broad, deep, and terrible,
before the fated group were conscious of it. The house and all
within it trembled; the foundations of the earth seemed to be
shaken, as if this awful sound were the peal of the last trump.
Young and old exchanged one wild glance, and remained an instant,
pale, affrighted, without utterance, or power to move. Then the
same shriek burst simultaneously from all their lips.
"The Slide! The Slide!"
The simplest words must intimate, but not portray, the
Twice Told Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: hear him speeding down the corridor, and the slam of the outer
office door by which he always announced his presence. And so I
stood there in that ridiculous cupboard, hot with the heat of a
steaming September day, musty with the smell of old leather
bindings, littered with broken overshoes and handleless umbrellas.
I was apoplectic with rage one minute, and choked with laughter
the next. It seemed an hour before Blobs came back.
He came without haste, strutting with new dignity, and paused
outside my prison door.
"Well, I guess that will hold them for a while," he remarked
comfortably, and proceeded to turn the key. "I've got 'em fastened
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: unable to get accurate details about this. At a very early age
William sought the pleasures of tobacco, even when a child of 6
or 7 he used his pennies for that purpose. He was brought up in
an environment defective on account of his father being a poor
earner and weak in discipline. But still his parent took for
years a great deal of interest in him and it was not until the
boy had proven himself most difficult that his father proclaimed
himself unable to manage his son.
At about 10 years of age William began running away from home and
manufacturing untrue stories. One of his favorite statements was
that his father had been killed in an accident. It is notable
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