| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: He makes excuses for his being there.
No cloudy show of stormy blustering weather
Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear;
Till sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear,
Upon the world dim darkness doth display,
And in her vaulty prison stows the day.
For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,
Intending weariness with heavy spright;
For, after supper, long he questioned
With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night:
Now leaden slumber with life's strength doth fight;
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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: "He's as mad as a cat that's lost a mouse," said
Kernan, hanging up the receiver and coming out.
"And now, Barney, my boy, we'll go to a show and
enjoy ourselves until a reasonable bedtime. Four
hours' sleep for me, and then the west-bound."
The two dined in a Broadway restaurant. Kernan
was pleased with himself. He spent money like a
prince of fiction. And then a weird and gorgeous
musical comedy engaged their attention. Afterward
there was a late supper in a grillroom, with
champagne, and Kernan at the height of his com-
The Voice of the City |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I have the Kid's automatic in my gun hand and that
the business end of it is carefully aiming in your direc-
tion."
"Cheese it," The General advised his companion; and
the two removed themselves to the opposite side of the
apartment, where they whispered, grumblingly, to one
another.
The girl, the boy, and Bridge waited as patiently as
they could for the coming of the dawn, talking of the
events of the night and planning against the future.
Bridge advised the girl to return at once to her father;
The Oakdale Affair |
