| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: and rearward vanished in a wood. They were
like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the
night.
The river was not in view. The tall soldier
burst into praises of what he thought to be his
powers of perception.
Some of the tall one's companions cried with
emphasis that they, too, had evolved the same
thing, and they congratulated themselves upon
it. But there were others who said that the tall
one's plan was not the true one at all. They per-
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: seem a little strange."
"But after you retire, where will you go?"
"Well, we all die eventually, so I guess I'll wind up at the cemetery."
"And then where will you go?"
"I get it. You're one of those religious fanatics, right? I think
you'd better find another ride. You can get out here."
"Okay, I'm going. But I see you don't know where you're
going, either."
"Yes, I do. I'm going to San Diego."
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It so happened in heaven one day that two souls who had been friends
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: anger; and I WAS disposed to bask in her youthful lightness of
heart. I just put my two arms round her and said, "Come, Bessie!
don't scold."
The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to
indulge in: somehow it pleased her.
"You are a strange child, Miss Jane," she said, as she looked down
at me; "a little roving, solitary thing: and you are going to
school, I suppose?"
I nodded.
"And won't you be sorry to leave poor Bessie?"
"What does Bessie care for me? She is always scolding me."
Jane Eyre |
