| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: that were distinguished, for some reason, though I could see
little difference, as the new and the old. They flanked opposite
ends of the house and were probably architectural absurdities,
redeemed in a measure indeed by not being wholly disengaged nor
of a height too pretentious, dating, in their gingerbread antiquity,
from a romantic revival that was already a respectable past.
I admired them, had fancies about them, for we could all profit
in a degree, especially when they loomed through the dusk,
by the grandeur of their actual battlements; yet it was not at
such an elevation that the figure I had so often invoked seemed
most in place.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: sudden grin.
"I never remember," announced Travis emphatically, "when I've had
a better time than I've had to-day; and I know just why it's been
such a success."
"Why, then?"
"Because we've had no foolishness. We've just been ourselves, and
haven't pretended we were in love with each other when we are not.
Condy, let's do this lots."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: seen again.
And now, as mysteriously as he had melted away, rumor passed over
the country. No tongue seemed to be heard telling the first news;
the news was there, one day, a matter of whispered knowledge. On
Sunk Creek and on Bear Creek, and elsewhere far and wide, before
men talked men seemed secretly to know that Steve, and Ed, and
Shorty, would never again be seen. Riders met each other in the
road and drew rein to discuss the event, and its bearing upon the
cattle interests. In town saloons men took each other aside, and
muttered over it in corners.
Thus it reached the ears of Molly Wood, beginning in a veiled and
The Virginian |
