| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: he groaned. "Oh, ain't it sweet?"
At his house, Mrs. Tree had set out a cold supper for him, the
inevitable dish of prunes serving as dessert. After supper
Annixter bathed and dressed. He decided at the last moment to
wear his usual town-going suit, a sack suit of black, made by a
Bonneville tailor. But his hat was gone. There were other hats
he might have worn, but because this particular one was lost he
fretted about it all through his dressing and then decided to
have one more look around the barn for it.
For over a quarter of an hour he pottered about the barn, going
from stall to stall, rummaging the harness room and feed room,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: "Build me a railroad to run like that." Genius has winged
conceptions; it sees things as a completed whole from the first;
it is only mediocrity which permits itself to be lost in details.
Cleggett was like the Romanoffs in his ability to go straight to
the point, but he had none of the Romanoff cruelty.
Captain Abernethy had made his arrangements accordingly. If it
pleased Cleggett to have a small manufacturing plant brought to
the Jasper B. instead of having the Jasper B. towed to a
shipyard, it was Abernethy's business as his chief executive
officer to see that this was done. The Captain had let the
contract to an enterprising and businesslike fellow, Watkins by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: To gently kiss her little child,
And then she murmured soft and low,
"For beauty, here, a mother seeks.
None but the Master made, I know,
The roses in a baby's cheeks."
THE JUNK BOX
My father often used to say:
"My boy don't throw a thing away:
You'll find a use for it some day."
So in a box he stored up things,
Bent nails, old washers, pipes and rings,
A Heap O' Livin' |
