| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: was doing everything possible to make the soldiers enjoy their
Christmas Eve. Scarlett alone took no pleasure in the guests.
The troop had added their ration of parched corn and side meat to
the supper of dried peas, stewed dried apples and peanuts which
Mammy set before them and they declared it was the best meal they
had had in months. Scarlett watched them eat and she was uneasy.
She not only begrudged them every mouthful they ate but she was on
tenterhooks lest they discover somehow that Pork had slaughtered
one of the shoats the day before. It now hung in the pantry and
she had grimly promised her household that she would scratch out
the eyes of anyone who mentioned the shoat to their guests or the
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the capital to this place, which was scarce half an hour's walk
distant from the home of the beautiful young woman who had been
the love of his youth.
And Fellner had made his home in the quietest quarter of the city,
in that quarter which was nearest the Archducal hunting castle.
He had lived very quietly, had not cultivated the acquaintance of
the ladies of the town, but was a great walker and bicycle rider;
and every Saturday evening since he had been alone in the house,
he had sent his servant to the theatre. And it was on Saturday
evenings that Forest-Councillor Kniepp went to his Bowling Club
at the other end of the city, and did not return until the last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Statesman by Plato: YOUNG SOCRATES: Clearly.
STRANGER: A task has to be accomplished, which, although difficult,
appears to be necessary.
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly the attempt must be made.
STRANGER: To assume that one part of virtue differs in kind from another,
is a position easily assailable by contentious disputants, who appeal to
popular opinion.
YOUNG SOCRATES: I do not understand.
STRANGER: Let me put the matter in another way: I suppose that you would
consider courage to be a part of virtue?
YOUNG SOCRATES: Certainly I should.
Statesman |
