| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: Then does the stout man with the oyster-colored eyelids in the
first row, left, turn his bullet head on his fat-creased neck to
remark huskily to his companion:
"The hook for him. R-r-r-rotten! That last one was an old
Weber'n Fields' gag. They discarded it back in '91. Say, the good
ones is all dead, anyhow. Take old Salvini, now, and Dan Rice.
Them was actors. Come on out and have something."
Does the short-story writer felicitate himself upon having
discovered a rare species in humanity's garden? The Blase Reader
flips the pages between his fingers, yawns, stretches, and remarks
to his wife:
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: then began hearing the rustle of some one coming, the tinkle of some
one going, he became extremely sensitive to the presence of whoever
might be in the room. It was his father now. The strain was acute.
For in one moment if there was no breeze, his father would slap the
covers of his book together, and say: "What's happening now? What are
we dawdling about here for, eh?" as, once before he had brought his
blade down among them on the terrace and she had gone stiff all over,
and if there had been an axe handy, a knife, or anything with a sharp
point he would have seized it and struck his father through the heart.
She had gone stiff all over, and then, her arm slackening, so that he
felt she listened to him no longer, she had risen somehow and gone away
To the Lighthouse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: must attach the nooses equally on the points; and see that the props
are regularly fixed, raising the pouch towards the middle;[12] and
into the slip-rope he must insert a large, long stone, to prevent the
net from stretching in the opposite direction, when it has got the
hare inside. He will fix the rows of poles with stretches of net
sufficiently high to prevent the creature leaping over.[13] In
hunting, "no procrastination" should be the motto, since it is
sportsmanlike at once and a proof of energy by all means to effect a
capture quickly. He will stretch the larger (haye) nets upon level
spaces; and proceed to plant the road nets upon roads and at
converging points of tracks and footpaths;[14] he must attach the
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