| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: SIWASH
"If I was a man--" Her words were in themselves indecisive, but
the withering contempt which flashed from her black eyes was not
lost upon the men-folk in the tent.
Tommy, the English sailor, squirmed, but chivalrous old Dick
Humphries, Cornish fisherman and erstwhile American salmon
capitalist, beamed upon her benevolently as ever. He bore women
too large a portion of his rough heart to mind them, as he said,
when they were in the doldrums, or when their limited vision would
not permit them to see all around a thing. So they said nothing,
these two men who had taken the half-frozen woman into their tent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: were interpreting something. I have heard her use the same tone
when reading her shorthand notes.
"I do not know. It is all strange to me!"
"What do you see?"
"I can see nothing. It is all dark."
"What do you hear?" I could detect the strain in the
Professor's patient voice.
"The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap.
I can hear them on the outside."
"Then you are on a ship?'"
We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the other.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: To Thomas! A London bag with mirrors and cosmetic jars of which
Thomas could not even have guessed the use! However, I put the
bag in the back of my mind, which was fast becoming stored with
anomalous and apparently irreconcilable facts, and followed
Warner to the house.
Liddy had come back to the kitchen: the door to the basement
stairs was double-barred, and had a table pushed against it;
and beside her on the table was most of the kitchen
paraphernalia.
"Did you see if there was any one missing in the house?" I asked,
ignoring the array of sauce-pans rolling-pins, and the poker of
The Circular Staircase |
