| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: And all the other little girls who were playing joined in and said:
``Bessie Bell doesn't know what she is talking about. Of course you
are sisters. Everybody knows you are sisters!''
Bessie Bell was distressed to be told that she did not know what she
was talking about--and she knew so much about Sisters.
So she began to cry, very softly.
Then she stopped crying long enough to say: ``But I never saw
Sisters like that before!''
Then she took up her crying again right where she left off.
Then a little boy--but he seemed a very large boy to Bessie Bell
with his long-striped-stocking-legs--said to Bessie Bell: ``No,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Lord Lysimachus.
BAWD.
O Abominable!
BOULT.
She makes our profession as it were to stink afore the face of
the gods.
BAWD.
Marry, hang her up for ever!
BOULT.
The nobleman would have dealt with her like a nobleman, and she
sent him away as cold as a snowball; saying his prayers too.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: almost olive-tinted wrinkles of the skin. The shrunken, ice-cold old
woman wore a black robe, which she trailed in the dust, and at her
throat there was something white, which I dared not examine. I could
scarcely see her wan and colorless eyes, for they were fixed in a
stare upon the heavens. She drew me after her along the aisles,
leaving a trace of her presence in the ashes that she shook from her
dress. Her bones rattled as she walked, like the bones of a skeleton;
and as we went I heard behind me the tinkling of a little bell, a
thin, sharp sound that rang through my head like the notes of a
harmonica.
"Suffer!" she cried, "suffer! So it must be!"
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