| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: ``You dizzy-eyed old woman, you can't see
straight!'' called Binghamton.
The umpire's reply was lost, but it was evident
that the offending player had been ordered out of
the grounds.
Binghamton swaggered along the bleachers
while the umpire slowly returned to his post. The
fans took exception to the player's objection and
were not slow in expressing it. Various witty
enconiums, not to be misunderstood, attested to
the bleachers' love of fair play and their disgust
The Redheaded Outfield |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: conduct Akinosuke to the room in which he bride awaited him.
The room was immense; but it could scarcely contain the multitude of
guests assembled to witness the wedding ceremony. All bowed down before
Akinosuke as he took his place, facing the King's daughter, on the
kneeling-cushion prepared for him. As a maiden of heaven the bride appeared
to be; and her robes were beautiful as a summer sky. And the marriage was
performed amid great rejoicing.
Afterwards the pair were conducted to a suite of apartments that had been
prepared for them in another portion of the palace; and there they received
the congratulations of many noble persons, and wedding gifts beyond
counting.
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: landholder; he would have been content to watch the seasons
come and go, and his cattle increase, until the limit of age;
he would have been content at any time to die, if he could
have left the estates undiminished to an heir-male of his
ancestors, that duty standing first in his instinctive
calendar. And now he saw everywhere the image of the new
proprietor come to meet him, and go sowing and reaping, or
fowling for his pleasure on the red moors, or eating the very
gooseberries in the Place garden; and saw always, on the
other hand, the figure of Francis go forth, a beggar, into
the broad world.
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