| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: bruises on his features. There was a burning behind
the big rock at the entrance of the cave, and the boy was
watching a pot of boiling coffee, with two buzzard tail-
feathers stuck in his red hair. He points a stick at me
when I come up, and says:
"Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of
Red Chief, the terror of the plains?
"He's all right now," says Bill, rolling up his trousers
and examining some bruises on his shins. "We're
playing Indian. We're making Buffalo Bill's show look
like magic-lantern views of Palestine in the town hall.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: Him--a priest, or another self. Well! I do know this, if my secrets
are not as safe there," she said, laying her hand on d'Arthez's heart,
"as they are here" (pressing the upper end of her busk beneath her
fingers), "then you are not the grand d'Arthez I think you--I shall
have been deceived."
A tear moistened d'Arthez's eyes, and Diane drank it in with a side
look, which, however, gave no motion either to the pupils or the lids
of her eyes. It was quick and neat, like the action of a cat pouncing
on a mouse.
D'Arthez, for the first time, after sixty days of protocols, ventured
to take that warm and perfumed hand, and press it to his lips with a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: cold and the snow hardened, and we got along better after that.
"I'd have turned back more than once, but I thought I'd meet up
with some of the Sheriff's party. I didn't do that, but I stumbled
on a trail on the third day, toward evening. It was the trail made
by John Donaldson, as I learned later. I followed it, but I
concluded after a while that whoever made it was lost, too. It
seemed to be going in a circle. I was in bad shape and had frozen
a part of my right hand, when I saw a cabin, and there was smoke
coming out of the chimney."
>From that time on David's statement dealt with the situation in the
cabin; with Jud Clark and the Donaldsons, and with the snow storm,
The Breaking Point |
