| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: to wear trousers! You'll have to do that, anyway, when we go up
in the mountains."
"No!"
"You sure will, as Florence says."
"We shall see about that. I don't know what's in the trunks. I
never pack anything. My dear brother, what do I have maids for?"
"How did it come that you didn't travel with a maid?"
"I wanted to be alone. But don't you worry. I shall be able to
look after myself. I dare say it will be good for me."
She went to the gate with him.
"What a shaggy, dusty horse! He's wild, too. Do you let him
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: could not but ask herself whether there had not originally been a
defect of truth, courage, and loyalty on her own part, in
allowing the minister to be thrown into position where so much
evil was to be foreboded and nothing auspicious to be hoped. Her
only justification lay in the fact that she had been able to
discern no method of rescuing him from a blacker ruin than had
overwhelmed herself except by acquiescing in Roger
Chillingworth's scheme of disguise. Under that impulse she had
made her choice, and had chosen, as it now appeared, the more
wretched alternative of the two. She determined to redeem her
error so far as it might yet be possible. Strengthened by years
The Scarlet Letter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: and further, that a fully awakened motherhood plans and works without limit,
for the good of the child.
That the children might be most nobly born, and reared in an
environment calculated to allow the richest, freest growth, they
had deliberately remodeled and improved the whole state.
I do not mean in the least that they stopped at that, any more
than a child stops at childhood. The most impressive part of their
whole culture beyond this perfect system of child-rearing was
the range of interests and associations open to them all, for life.
But in the field of literature I was most struck, at first, by the
child-motive.
Herland |
