| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: Prairie in 1865. He was a distinguished bird of prey--
swooping thin nose, turtle mouth, thick brows, port-wine
cheeks, floss of white hair, contemptuous eyes. He was not
happy in the social changes of thirty years. Three decades
ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman
Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the
arbiters. That was as it should be; the fine arts--medicine,
law, religion, and finance--recognized as aristocratic; four
Yankees democratically chatting with but ruling the Ohioans
and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to
follow them. But Westlake was old, almost retired; Julius
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: and put my arm round him, and held him up. I felt very strong;
I believe I could have lifted him and carried him.
It was a wonder how he wrote, but he did write, in a big
scratching hand; he almost covered one side of the paper.
It seemed a long time; I suppose it was three or four minutes.
He was groaning, terribly, all the while. Then he said it
was ended, and I let him down upon his pillows and he gave me
the paper and told me to fold it, and hide it, and give it
to those who would act upon it. 'Whom do you mean?' I said.
'Who are those who will act upon it?' But he only groaned,
for an answer; he couldn't speak, for weakness. In a few minutes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: friend."
Raoul bowed ceremoniously.
"And me, Louise," said he -- "will you not present me also
to mademoiselle?"
"Oh, she knows you -- she knows all!"
This unguarded expression made Montalais laugh and Raoul
sigh with happiness, for he interpreted it thus: "She knows
all our love."
"The ceremonies being over, Monsieur le Vicomte," said
Montalais, "take a chair, and tell us quickly the news you
bring flying thus."
Ten Years Later |
