| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: glad! I've waited such a long time!"
"You must thank the Exchange, not me."
"Don't rub it in!"
"Well, good-bye."
"I don't think you're very kind, Girl Blue."
"No?"
"No, I don't! I've got the gloves, by the way."
"Thank you."
"I'll send them to you, care of Charing Cross Post Office, if you
like, unless you'd rather I buried them six paces due east of the
fourteenth lamp-post on the west side of Edgware Road."
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: soon he became so interested in the work that he forgot all about the
clay nymph. But next morning, happening to notice it as it lay on the
board, he found the sun had baked it to the hardness of stone, and it
was strong enough to be safely handled.
Claus now painted the nymph with great care in the likeness of Necile,
giving it deep-blue eyes, white teeth, rosy lips and ruddy-brown hair.
The gown he colored oak-leaf green, and when the paint was dry Claus
himself was charmed with the new toy. Of course it was not nearly so
lovely as the real Necile; but, considering the material of which it
was made, Claus thought it was very beautiful.
When Bessie, riding upon her white palfrey, came to his dwelling next
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Well, not if you don't want to tell me any more," she said
loftily, though she was burning for further information. "But I
just can't see you in the role of a guardian," and she laughed,
hoping to disconcert him.
"No, I don't suppose you can. Your vision is pretty limited."
He said no more and smoked his cigar in silence for a while. She
cast about for some remark as rude as his but could think of none.
"I would appreciate it if you'd say nothing of this to anyone," he
said finally. "Though I suppose that asking a woman to keep her
mouth shut is asking the impossible."
"I can keep a secret," she said with injured dignity.
Gone With the Wind |
