| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Bedford dies, and is carried in by two in his chair.]
[An alarum. Re-enter Talbot, Burgundy, and the rest.]
TALBOT.
Lost, and recover'd in a day again!
This is a double honor, Burgundy:
Yet heavens have glory for this victory!
BURGUNDY.
Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
Enshrines thee in his heart, and there erects
Thy noble deeds as valor's monuments.
TALBOT.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: an' follered it until I went almost into the Delaware town. It led to a hut in
a deep ravine. I ain't often surprised, but I wus then. I found the dead body
of that girl, Kate Wells, we fetched over from Fort Henry. Thet's sad, but it
ain't the surprisin' part. I also found Silvertip, the Shawnee I've been
lookin' fer. He was all knocked an' cut up, deader'n a stone. There'd been
somethin' of a scrap in the hut. I calkilate Girty murdered Kate, but I
couldn't think then who did fer Silver, though I allowed the renegade might
hev done thet, too. I watched round an' seen Girty come back to the hut. He
had ten Injuns with him, an' presently they all made fer the west. I trailed
them, but didn't calkilate it'd be wise to tackle the bunch single-handed, so
laid back. A mile or so from the hut I came across hoss tracks minglin' with
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: for shot-gun shells, a mold for lead bullets. When once, in a
housewifely frenzy for getting rid of things, she raged, "Why
don't you give these away?" he solemnly defended them,
"Well, you can't tell; they might come in handy some day."
She flushed. She wondered if he was thinking of the child
they would have when, as he put it, they were "sure they
could afford one."
Mysteriously aching, nebulously sad, she slipped away, half-
convinced but only half-convinced that it was horrible and
unnatural, this postponement of release of mother-affection, this
sacrifice to her opinionation and to his cautious desire for
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