| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: "I don't know how this trip of yours is going to affect the
firm's business, T. A. But it's going to be a liberal education
for you. You'll find that you'll need that little book a good
many times before you're through. And while you're following its
advice, do this: forget that your name is Buck, except for
business purposes; forget that your family has always lived in a
brownstone mausoleum in Seventy-second street; forget that you
like your chops done just so, and your wine at such-and-such a
temperature; get close to your trade. They're an awfully human
lot, those Middle Western buyers. Don't chuck them under the
chin, but smile on 'em. And you've got a lovely smile, T. A."
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Ham. Excellent Ifaith, of the Camelions dish: I eate
the Ayre promise-cramm'd, you cannot feed Capons so
King. I haue nothing with this answer Hamlet, these
words are not mine
Ham. No, nor mine. Now my Lord, you plaid once
i'th' Vniuersity, you say?
Polon. That I did my Lord, and was accounted a good
Actor
Ham. And what did you enact?
Pol. I did enact Iulius Caesar, I was kill'd i'th' Capitol:
Brutus kill'd me
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: "Because you are her lover, surely!"
"Who told you that?"
"Prudence, whom I met yesterday. I give you my congratulations,
my dear fellow; she is a charming mistress, and it isn't
everybody who has the chance. Stick to her; she will do you
credit."
These simple reflections of Gaston showed me how absurd had been
my susceptibilities. If I had only met him the night before and
he had spoken to me like that, I should certainly not have
written the foolish letter which I had written.
I was on the point of calling on Prudence, and of sending her to
Camille |
