| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: And, till the tears that she hath shed for thee
Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,
She was the fairest creature in the world;
And yet she is inferior to none.
SLY.
Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?
Or do I dream? Or have I dream'd till now?
I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;
I smell sweet savours, and I feel soft things:
Upon my life, I am a lord indeed;
And not a tinker, nor Christophero Sly.
The Taming of the Shrew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: At the beginning of the plague, when there was now no more hope
but that the whole city would be visited; when, as I have said, all that
had friends or estates in the country retired with their families;
and when, indeed, one would have thought the very city itself was
running out of the gates, and that there would be nobody left behind;
you may be sure from that hour all trade, except such as related to
immediate subsistence, was, as it were, at a full stop.
This is so lively a case, and contains in it so much of the real
condition of the people, that I think I cannot be too particular in it,
and therefore I descend to the several arrangements or classes of
people who fell into immediate distress upon this occasion. For example:
A Journal of the Plague Year |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: slack like her mother. Her surly husband was still talking of
his rights and crying down with the rich. They had two children.
Minnie wrote of them, and of the delights of city life. Movies
every night. Halsted Street just around the corner. The big
stores. State Street. The el took you downtown in no time.
Something going on all the while. Bella Westerveld, after one of
those letters, was more than a chronic shrew; she became a
terrible termagant.
When Ben Westerveld decided to concentrate on hogs and wheat he
didn't dream that a world would be clamoring for hogs and wheat
for four long years. When the time came, he had them, and sold
One Basket |
