| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: Big as log of maple,
On a little deuced cars,
A load for father's cattle.
Yankee doodle do, etc.
And every time they fired it off
It took a horn of powder,
It made a noise--like father's gun,
Only a nation louder.
Yankee doodle do, etc.
There was a man in our town,
His name was--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: Rousseau. There were two letters addressed to Duval. I took them
and returned. When I re-entered the room Armand was dressed and
ready to go out.
"Thanks," he said, taking the letters. "Yes," he added, after
glancing at the addresses, "they are from my father and sister.
They must have been quite at a loss to understand my silence."
He opened the letters, guessed at rather than read them, for each
was of four pages; and a moment after folded them up. "Come," he
said, "I will answer tomorrow."
We went to the police station, and Armand handed in the
permission signed by Marguerite's sister. He received in return a
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When
he looked loweringly up, quivering at each
sound, his eyes had the expression of those of
a criminal who thinks his guilt and his pun-
ishment great, and knows that he can find no
words.
He went from the fields into a thick woods, as
if resolved to bury himself. He wished to get
out of hearing of the crackling shots which were
to him like voices.
The ground was cluttered with vines and
The Red Badge of Courage |
