| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: The path they followed had grown indefinite among the
grass and creepers of the forest carpet; now it seemed
to end altogether in a little copse of young birches,
the delicately graceful stems of which were clustered
about a parent stump, long since decayed and overgrown
with lichens and layers of thick moss.
As the two paused, the girl suddenly sank upon her knees,
then threw herself face forward upon the soft green bark
which had formed itself above the roots of the ancient
mother-tree. Her companion looked down in pained amazement
at what he saw. Her body shook with the violence of
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: out and approached the door of the adjoining room where
the man and woman were.
Pressing close to the door he listened. Now he distinguished
words, for the two had raised their voices as though in argu-
ment. The woman was speaking.
"I have brought the locket," she said, "as was agreed upon
between you and General Kraut, as my identification. I carry
no other credentials. This was to be enough. You have noth-
ing to do but give me the papers and let me go."
The man replied in so low a tone that Tarzan could not
catch the words and then the woman spoke again -- a note of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: tone. "Well," he wrote, "I guess the little old town is as
dead as ever. It seems funny you being right there all this time
and I've traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Everybody
treats me swell. You ought to seen some of those California
houses. They make Hatton's place look like a dump."
The girls, Cora and Tess and the rest, laughed and joked among
themselves and assured one another, with a toss of the head, that
they could have a good time without the fellas. They didn't need
boys around.
They gave parties, and they were not a success. There was one of
the type known as a stag. "Some hen party!" they all said.
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