| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: licker in his life, and seldom swore a cross oath.
"I don't know what else to tell yeh, Henry,
excepting that yeh must never do no shirking,
child, on my account. If so be a time comes when
yeh have to be kilt or do a mean thing, why,
Henry, don't think of anything 'cept what's right,
because there's many a woman has to bear up
'ginst sech things these times, and the Lord 'll
take keer of us all.
"Don't forgit about the socks and the shirts,
child; and I've put a cup of blackberry jam with
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: dollars?"
"You got out of that cab that just drove up,
didn't you? " asked the blind man.
"I did," said Gillian.
" guess you are all right," said the pencil dealer,
"to ride in a cab by daylight. Take a look at that,
if you like."
He drew a small book from his coat pocket and
held it out. Gillian opened it and saw that it was a
bank deposit book. It showed a balance of $1,785 to
the blind man's credit.
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: things right--for at first we could afford no properly
responsible underlings--and we traveled London, pretending to be
our own representatives and making all sorts of special
arrangements.
But none of this was my special work, and as soon as we could get
other men in, I dropped the traveling, though my uncle found it
particularly interesting and kept it up for years. "Does me
good, George, to see the chaps behind their counters like I was
once," he explained. My special and distinctive duty was to
give Tono-Bungay substance and an outward and visible bottle, to
translate my uncle's great imaginings into the creation of case
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