| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: another,
in the addition which each made to the singular and tranquil
splendor of
the city.
As the little company came, one by one, to the mansions which
were
prepared for them, and their Guide beckoned to the happy
inhabitant
to enter in and take possession, there was a soft murmur of joy,
half wonder and half recognition; as if the new and immortal
dwelling
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: governor said I wouldn't make any money. He's right--so far.
And he said I'd be coming home beaten. There he's wrong. I've
got a hunch that something 'll happen to me in this Greaser town."
He went out into a wide, whitewashed, high-ceiled corridor, and
from that into an immense room which, but for pool tables, bar,
benches, would have been like a courtyard. The floor was
cobblestoned, the walls were of adobe, and the large windows
opened like doors. A blue cloud of smoke filled the place. Gale
heard the click of pool balls and the clink of glasses along the
crowded bar. Bare-legged, sandal-footed Mexicans in white rubbed
shoulders with Mexicans mantled in black and red. There were
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: ROWLEY. Nay I'm sure your Lady Sir Peter can't be the cause of your
uneasiness.
SIR PETER. Why has anybody told you she was dead[?]
ROWLEY. Come, come, Sir Peter, you love her, notwithstanding your
tempers do not exactly agree.
SIR PETER. But the Fault is entirely hers, Master Rowley--I am
myself, the sweetest temper'd man alive, and hate a teasing temper;
and so I tell her a hundred Times a day--
ROWLEY. Indeed!
SIR PETER. Aye and what is very extraordinary in all our disputes
she is always in the wrong! But Lady Sneerwell, and the Set she meets
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