| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: the tiny porch. Kennedy pulled up to a walk. A
woman, in full sunlight, was throwing a dripping
blanket over a line stretched between two old ap-
ple-trees. And as the bobtailed, long-necked chest-
nut, trying to get his head, jerked the left hand,
covered by a thick dogskin glove, the doctor raised
his voice over the hedge: "How's your child,
Amy?"
I had the time to see her dull face, red, not with
a mantling blush, but as if her flat cheeks had been
vigorously slapped, and to take in the squat figure,
Amy Foster |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates Winchester
and his men in tawny coats.]
WINCHESTER.
How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?
GLOUCESTER.
Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?
WINCHESTER.
I do, thou most usurping proditor,
And not protector, of the king or realm.
GLOUCESTER.
Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: sombre surfaces glittered an array of heavy silver dishes and
heavier cut-glass bowls and goblets.
The company sat down to the first course of raw Blue Point
oysters, served upon little pyramids of shaved ice, and the two
butlers at once began filling the glasses of the guests with cool
Haut Sauterne.
Mrs. Gerard, who was very proud of her dinners, and never able to
resist the temptation of commenting upon them to her guests,
leaned across to Presley and Mrs. Cedarquist, murmuring, "Mr.
Presley, do you find that Sauterne too cold? I always believe it
is so bourgeois to keep such a delicate wine as Sauterne on the
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