| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: prisoner at the bar. We rest our case here."
A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his
face in his hands and rocked his body softly to and
fro, while a painful silence reigned in the court-room.
Many men were moved, and many women's com-
passion testified itself in tears. Counsel for the de-
fence rose and said:
"Your honor, in our remarks at the opening of this
trial, we foreshadowed our purpose to prove that our
client did this fearful deed while under the influence
of a blind and irresponsible delirium produced by drink.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: driving a gig, his direction being also townwards. On the
round of the middle of the arch the gig stopped. "Mr
Henchard?" came from it in the voice of Farfrae. Henchard
turned his face.
Finding that he had guessed rightly Farfrae told the man who
accompanied him to drive home; while he alighted and went up
to his former friend.
"I have heard that you think of emigrating, Mr. Henchard?"
he said. "Is it true? I have a real reason for asking."
Henchard withheld his answer for several instants, and then
said, "Yes; it is true. I am going where you were going to
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: this. Where you hurt?"
"Hip," he says, "but that ain't much. The thing
that bothers me is this arm. It's done busted. I
fell on it."
I drug him out of the road and back of the lumber
pile I had been laying on, and hurt him considerable
a-doing it.
"Now," I says, "what can I do fur you?"
"I reckon yo' better leave me," he says, "without
yo' want to get yo'self mixed up in all this."
"If I do," I says, "you may bleed to death here:
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