| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: I'm glad for more reasons than I've mentioned."
Thorne was evidently laboring under strong, suppressed excitement.
His face showed pale under the tan, and his eyes gleamed with a dark fire.
Occasionally his delight at meeting, talking with Gale, dominated the other
emotions, but not for long. He had seated himself at a table near one of
the doorlike windows leading into the street, and every little while
he would glance sharply out. Also he kept consulting his watch.
These details gradually grew upon Gale as Thorne talked. "George,
it strikes me that you're upset," said Dick, presently. "I seem to
remember you as a cool-headed fellow whom nothing could disturb.
Has the army changed you?"
Desert Gold |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: No such importation of novelties could enrich their intellectual stores
at present. In the daily interchange of news, they must be again
restricted to the other topics with which for a while the Sucklings'
coming had been united, such as the last accounts of Mrs. Churchill,
whose health seemed every day to supply a different report,
and the situation of Mrs. Weston, whose happiness it was to be hoped
might eventually be as much increased by the arrival of a child,
as that of all her neighbours was by the approach of it.
Mrs. Elton was very much disappointed. It was the delay of a great
deal of pleasure and parade. Her introductions and recommendations
must all wait, and every projected party be still only talked of.
Emma |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: attention of the Office of Public Instruction when any thinkers are to
be found there who do not think exclusively of themselves.
We incurred the infliction of an imposition in a thousand ways. Our
memory was so good that we never learned a lesson. It was enough for
either of us to hear our class-fellows repeat the task in French,
Latin, or grammar, and we could say it when our turn came; but if the
master, unfortunately, took it into his head to reverse the usual
order and call upon us first, we very often did not even know what the
lesson was; then the imposition fell in spite of our most ingenious
excuses. Then we always put off writing our exercises till the last
moment; if there were a book to be finished, or if we were lost in
Louis Lambert |
