| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: he evidently thought that he needed only to talk
for a time, and the youth would perceive that he
was a good fellow.
"Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he began
in a small voice, and then he achieved the forti-
tude to continue. "Dern me if I ever see fellers
fight so. Laws, how they did fight! I knowed
th' boys 'd like when they onct got square at it.
Th' boys ain't had no fair chanct up t' now, but
this time they showed what they was. I knowed
it 'd turn out this way. Yeh can't lick them boys.
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: own, her mother's and her elder sister's--the last of whom had
succumbed to all but absolute want when, as conscious and
incredulous ladies, suddenly bereft, betrayed, overwhelmed, they
had slipped faster and faster down the steep slope at the bottom of
which she alone had rebounded. Her mother had never rebounded any
more at the bottom than on the way; had only rumbled and grumbled
down and down, making, in respect of caps, topics and "habits," no
effort whatever--which simply meant smelling much of the time of
whiskey.
CHAPTER II
It was always rather quiet at Cocker's while the contingent from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her
eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome
her, she dared hardly touch them lest they should fawn upon her
splendid garments. She kissed me gently: I was all flour making
the Christmas cake, and it would not have done to give me a hug;
and then she looked round for Heathcliff. Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw
watched anxiously their meeting; thinking it would enable them to
judge, in some measure, what grounds they had for hoping to succeed
in separating the two friends.
Heathcliff was hard to discover, at first. If he were careless,
and uncared for, before Catherine's absence, he had been ten times
Wuthering Heights |
