| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: feet touched ground almost instantly--the supposedly perilous fall
amounted to something like twelve inches.
I turned round, feeling a little foolish, and saw that from
where I stood the ledge and part of the lake were in full view. I
could see the spears still lying where they had been thrown down.
But as I looked the two Incas emerged from the passage. They
picked up the spears, walked to the raft, and again launched it and
paddled toward the center of the lake.
I thought, "Here is my chance; I must make that ledge before
they return," and I started forward so precipitately that I ran
head on into a massive boulder and got badly stunned for my pains.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: clamorously through the bare garage--then I saw Wilson standing on the
raised threshold of his office, swaying back and forth and holding to
the doorposts with both hands. Some man was talking to him in a low
voice and attempting, from time to time, to lay a hand on his shoulder,
but Wilson neither heard nor saw. His eyes would drop slowly from the
swinging light to the laden table by the wall, and then jerk back to
the light again, and he gave out incessantly his high, horrible call:
"Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! oh, Ga-od! oh, my Ga-od!"
Presently Tom lifted his head with a jerk and, after staring around the
garage with glazed eyes, addressed a mumbled incoherent remark to the
policeman.
The Great Gatsby |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: him mine. I will go to him! [Puts on cloak and goes to the door,
then turns back. Sits down at table and writes a letter, puts it
into an envelope, and leaves it on table.] Arthur has never
understood me. When he reads this, he will. He may do as he
chooses now with his life. I have done with mine as I think best,
as I think right. It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -
not I. I only break its bondage.
[Exit.]
[PARKER enters L. and crosses towards the ball-room R. Enter MRS.
ERLYNNE.]
MRS. ERLYNNE. Is Lady Windermere in the ball-room?
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