| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: him. I can't drive, myself, and I don't like to hire
anybody; aside from its being an expense, it would
make talk. Mother Dodd and Abby won't make
talk outside the family, but I suppose it will have
to be known."
"Mr. Dodd didn't want any mystery made over
it," Stephen Wheaton said.
"There ain't going to be any mystery. Christo-
pher has got a right to live awhile on Silver Mountain
if he wants to," returned Myrtle with her odd,
defiant air.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: How it went off Amyas could not tell (right in his facts as he
was), for nobody on earth knew I suppose, at that day; and it was
not till nearly two centuries of fatal experience that the settlers
in America discovered the simple laws of these epidemics which now
every child knows, or ought to know. But common sense was on his
side; and Yeo rose and spoke--
"As I have said before, many a time, the Lord has sent us a very
young Daniel for judge. I remember now to have heard the Spaniards
say, how these calentures lay always in the low ground, and never
came more than a few hundred feet above the sea."
"Let us go up those few hundred feet, then."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: dull inertia to the emission of the most terrifying gleams.
"By this system God is bereft of none of His rights. Mind, as a form
of matter, has brought me a new conviction of His greatness."
After hearing him discourse thus, after receiving into my soul his
look like a ray of light, it was difficult not to be dazzled by his
conviction and carried away by his arguments. The Mind appeared to me
as a purely physical power, surrounded by its innumerable progeny. It
was a new conception of humanity under a new form.
This brief sketch of the laws which, as Lambert maintained, constitute
the formula of our intellect, must suffice to give a notion of the
prodigious activity of his spirit feeding on itself. Louis had sought
Louis Lambert |
