| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: require too much altering."
But when it had been slipped over her head we groaned
at the inadequacy of her old-fashioned stays. There
followed a flying visit to the department where hips were
whisked out of sight in a jiffy, and where lines
miraculously took the place of curves. Then came the
gown once more, over the new stays this time. The effect
was magical. The Irish-crocheted saleswoman and I
clasped hands and fell back in attitudes of admiration.
Frau Nirlanger turned this way and that before the long
mirror and chattered like a pleased child. Her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: next, something more curious. While the scene and the moment were
new to him and unanticipated, the sentiment and essence of the
moment were indescribably familiar. What could be the cause of
it? Probably a dream.
Mrs. Charmond did not move more than to raise her eyes to him, and
he came and stood by her. She glanced up at his face across her
brows and forehead, and then he observed a blush creep slowly over
her decidedly handsome cheeks. Her eyes, which had lingered upon
him with an inquiring, conscious expression, were hastily
withdrawn, and she mechanically applied the cigarette again to her
lips.
The Woodlanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: abbot, who was fain to give place to bluff King Hal and some of
his courtiers, a score of years since, had a chemist's complete
apparatus, which he was obliged to leave behind him to his
successors. Thou shalt there occupy, and melt, and puff, and
blaze, and multiply, until the Green Dragon become a golden
goose, or whatever the newer phrase of the brotherhood may
testify."
"Thou art right, Master Varney," said the alchemist setting his
teeth close and grinding them together--"thou art right even in
thy very contempt of right and reason. For what thou sayest in
mockery may in sober verity chance to happen ere we meet again.
Kenilworth |
