| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: be of ground glass. Yours faithfully, etc. P.S. - lf your men
drop the bath on the stairs, the second footman will at once
apply for a warrant for their arrest."
Jill buried her face in the sofa-cushions and gave way to
unrestrained merriment. Jonah laughed openly. I set my teeth
and tried not to smile. For an instant the corners of Daphne's
mouth twitched. Then:
"Wretched ass," she said.
"The truth is," said her husband, "you don't know literature when
you see it. Now that letter- "
"I suppose I shall have to write to the man," said I.
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: What if he was old enough to be her father, with graying hair?
Lots of the movie heroes had graying hair at the sides.
They walked for an hour. Tessie left him at the corner. She had
once heard her father designate Ballou as "that drunken skunk."
When she entered the sitting room her cheeks held an unwonted
pink. Her eyes were brighter than they had been in months. Her
mother looked up quickly, peering at her over a pair of
steel-rimmed spectacles, very much askew.
"Where you been, Tessie?"
"Oh, walkin'."
"Who with?"
One Basket |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: and red, that ever any man saw; and thus was this maiden saved by
the grace of God. And therefore is that field clept the field of
God flourished, for it was full of roses.
Also beside the choir of the church, at the right side, as men come
downward sixteen degrees, is the place where our Lord was born,
that is full well dight of marble, and full richly painted with
gold, silver, azure and other colours. And three paces beside is
the crib of the ox and the ass. And beside that is the place where
the star fell, that led the three kings, Jaspar, Melchior and
Balthazar: but men of Greece clepe them thus, GALGALATH,
MALGALATH, and SERAPHIE, and the Jews clepe them, in this manner,
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