| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: beauty was the beauty of a grocer, and the finest future would
offer it none too much room consistently to develop. She had
engaged herself in short to the perfection of a type, and almost
anything square and smooth and whole had its weight for a person
still conscious herself of being a mere bruised fragment of
wreckage. But it contributed hugely at present to carry on the two
parallel lines of her experience in the cage and her experience out
of it. After keeping quiet for some time about this opposition she
suddenly--one Sunday afternoon on a penny chair in the Regent's
Park--broke, for him, capriciously, bewilderingly, into an
intimation of what it came to. He had naturally pressed more and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: supreme torture, bitterer than death, Poggin stood, mane like a
lion's, back to the wall, bloody-faced, grand, with his guns
spouting red!
All faded, darkened. The thunder deadened. Duane fell, seemed
floating. There it drifted--Ray Longstreth's sweet face, white,
with dark, tragic eyes, fading from his sight . . . fading . .
. fading . . .
CHAPTER XXV
Light shone before Duane's eyes--thick, strange light that came
and went. For a long time dull and booming sounds rushed by,
filling all. It was a dream in which there was nothing; a
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: continued, raising his voice, "hear once for all what I have to
say about our relationship, and all that sort of humbug! I must
have no nonsense on that point; it would never suit me. I shall
excuse you nothing on the plea of being my brother; if I find you
stupid, negligent, dissipated, idle, or possessed of any faults
detrimental to the interests of the house, I shall dismiss you as
I would any other clerk. Ninety pounds a year are good wages,
and I expect to have the full value of my money out of you;
remember, too, that things are on a practical footing in my
establishment--business-like habits, feelings, and ideas, suit
me best. Do you understand?"
The Professor |
