| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: spot where his dinner should have been, but Alfred was not to be
resisted.
"A man needs someone around," he declared, "when he's going
through a thing like this. I need all of you, all of you," and
with his eyes he embraced the weary circle of faces about him.
"I feel as though I could go out of my head," he explained and
with that he began tucking the three small mites in the pink and
white crib designed for but one.
Zoie regarded him with a bored expression'
"You act as though you WERE out of your head," she commented, but
Alfred did not heed her. He was now engaged in the unhoped for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: bogus double-eagles. Around one of its faces was stamped these
words: "THE REMARK I MADE TO THE POOR STRANGER WAS--" Around the
other face was stamped these: "GO, AND REFORM. [SIGNED]
PINKERTON." Thus the entire remaining refuse of the renowned joke
was emptied upon a single head, and with calamitous effect. It
revived the recent vast laugh and concentrated it upon Pinkerton;
and Harkness's election was a walk-over.
Within twenty-four hours after the Richardses had received their
cheques their consciences were quieting down, discouraged; the old
couple were learning to reconcile themselves to the sin which they
had committed. But they were to learn, now, that a sin takes on new
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: either to tell him or not to tell, as she thought fit.
She found him so perfectly indifferent, that she was almost
afraid to enter into the point with him; but, however, after
some other circumlocutions she told him that by a strange and
unaccountable accident she came to have a particular knowledge
of the late unhappy adventure he had fallen into, and that in such
a manner, that there was nobody in the world but herself and
him that were acquainted with it, no, not the very person that
was with him.
He looked a little angrily at first. 'What adventure?' said he.
'Why,' said she, 'of your being robbed coming from Knightbr----;
Moll Flanders |
