| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: place. Then, when he comes - "
Her voice broke and Minnie, scenting a tragedy but ignorant of it,
went back to her kitchen to cry into the roller towel. Her world
was gone to pieces. By years of service to the one family she had
no other world, no home, no ties. She was with the Livingstones, but
not one of them. Alone in her kitchen she felt lonely and cut off.
She thought that David, had he not been ill, would have told her.
Lucy found David moving about upstairs some time later, and when
she went up she found him sitting in Dick's room, on a stiff chair
inside the door. She stood beside him and put her hand on his
shoulder, but he did not say anything, and she went away.
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: breakfast together, too, every morning, and they had dinner with
me--in fact, I was a father then. I enjoyed my children. They did
not think for themselves so long as they lived in the Rue de la
Jussienne; they knew nothing of the world; they loved me with all
their hearts. MON DIEU! why could they not always be little
girls? (Oh! my head! this racking pain in my head!) Ah! ah!
forgive me, children, this pain is fearful; it must be agony
indeed, for you have used me to endure pain. MON DIEU! if only I
held their hands in mine, I should not feel it at all.--Do you
think that they are on the way? Christophe is so stupid; I ought
to have gone myself. HE will see them. But you went to the ball
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don't know as well
as we know the bugle-calls. He is Chief of Scouts to the Army of
the Frontier, and it makes us very important. In such a position
as I hold in the military service one needs to be of good family
and possess an education much above the common to be worthy of the
place. I am the best-educated horse outside of the hippodrome,
everybody says, and the best-mannered. It may be so, it is not for
me to say; modesty is the best policy, I think. Buffalo Bill
taught me the most of what I know, my mother taught me much, and I
taught myself the rest. Lay a row of moccasins before me - Pawnee,
Sioux, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and as many other tribes as
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