| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: have gone with this fella, only Chuck, he was gone. All the
boys're gone. It's fierce. You get scared, sitting home,
waiting, and they're in France and everywhere, learning French
and everything, and meeting grand people and having a fuss made
over 'em. So I got mad and said I didn't care, I wasn't going to
squat home all my life, waiting----"
Angie Hatton had stopped knitting now. Old Man Hatton was
looking down at her very kindly. And so Tessie went on. The
pent-up emotions and thoughts of these past months were finding
an outlet at last. These things which she had never been able to
discuss with her mother she now was laying bare to Angie Hatton
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: off to attend to naval matters, Agesilaus continued his march whither
he was bound to Phrygia.
[19] = 7,312 pounds: 10 shillings.
[20] See "Cyrop." VII. i. 45.
[21] See Grote, "H. G." ix. 327, note 3; Arist. "Pol." ii. 9, 33.
V
But now Tithraustes seemed to have discovered in Agesilaus a
disposition to despise the fortunes of the Persian monarch--he
evidently had no intention to withdraw from Asia; on the contrary, he
was cherishing hopes vast enough to include the capture of the king
himself. Being at his wits' end how to manage matters, he resolved to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: past and the approach of the New Year that was to begin the new
life.
But Condy was thoroughly unhappy. Those wonderful three months
were at an end. Blix was going. In less than a week now she
would be gone. He would see the last of her. Then what? He
pictured himself--when he had said good-by to her and the train
had lessened to a smoky blur in the distance--facing about, facing
the life that must then begin for him, returning to the city
alone, picking up the routine again. There would be nothing to
look forward to then; he would not see Blix in the afternoon;
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