| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "Gertrude judges by herself!" Acton exclaimed, laughing.
"Don't you, Gertrude? Of course the Baroness will think of me.
She will think of me from morning till night."
"She will be very comfortable here," said Charlotte, with something
of a housewife's pride. "She can have the large northeast room.
And the French bedstead," Charlotte added, with a constant sense
of the lady's foreignness.
"She will not like it," said Gertrude; "not even if you pin little
tidies all over the chairs."
"Why not, dear?" asked Charlotte, perceiving a touch of irony here,
but not resenting it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: a meeting because they could make as much noise as they liked, and nobody
ever interrupted. It was a small tin shed standing apart from the
bungalow. Against the wall there was a deep trough and in the corner a
copper with a basket of clothes-pegs on top of it. The little window, spun
over with cobwebs, had a piece of candle and a mouse-trap on the dusty
sill. There were clotheslines criss-crossed overhead and, hanging from a
peg on the wall, a very big, a huge, rusty horseshoe. The table was in the
middle with a form at either side.
"You can't be a bee, Kezia. A bee's not an animal. It's a ninseck."
"Oh, but I do want to be a bee frightfully," wailed Kezia...A tiny bee, all
yellow-furry, with striped legs. She drew her legs up under her and leaned
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas,
and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal,
and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use
shall be for a longer term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
The United States Constitution |
