| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: going to observe.
MISS HARDCASTLE. (Aside.) I vow and so do I. (To him.) You were
observing, sir, that in this age of hypocrisy--something about
hypocrisy, sir.
MARLOW. Yes, madam. In this age of hypocrisy there are few who upon
strict inquiry do not--a--a--a--
MISS HARDCASTLE. I understand you perfectly, sir.
MARLOW. (Aside.) Egad! and that's more than I do myself.
MISS HARDCASTLE. You mean that in this hypocritical age there are few
that do not condemn in public what they practise in private, and think
they pay every debt to virtue when they praise it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: beasts, the men on Dead Horse Trail.
"It was there I met a man with the heart of a Christ and the
patience. And he was honest. When he rested at midday he took
the packs from the horses so that they, too, might rest. He paid
$50 a hundred-weight for their fodder, and more. He used his own
bed to blanket their backs when they rubbed raw. Other men let
the saddles eat holes the size of water-buckets. Other men, when
the shoes gave out, let them wear their hoofs down to the bleeding
stumps. He spent his last dollar for horseshoe nails. I know
this because we slept in the one bed and ate from the one pot, and
became blood brothers where men lost their grip of things and died
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: rather than hear them, of two small hands that clutched desperately
at the seat beside them. The girl in the aisle stood, bent toward
us, perplexity and alarm fighting in her face.
With twitching hands the porter attempted to draw the curtains
together. Then in a paralysis of shock, he collapsed on the edge
of my berth and sat there swaying. In my excitement I shook him.
"For Heaven's sake, keep your nerve, man," I said bruskly. "You'll
have every woman in the car in hysterics. And if you do, you'll
wish you could change places with the man in there." He rolled his
eyes.
A man near, who had been reading last night's paper, dropped it
The Man in Lower Ten |
