| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: occupation until--
Until she became Lady Altringham? Well, perhaps. At any rate,
she was not going back to slave for Ursula.
She shook her head with a faint smile. "I'm so sorry, Ursula:
of course I want awfully to oblige you--"
Mrs. Gillow's gaze grew reproachful. "I should have supposed
you would," she murmured. Susy, meeting her eyes, looked into
them down a long vista of favours bestowed, and perceived that
Ursula was not the woman to forget on which side the obligation
lay between them.
Susy hesitated: she remembered the weeks of ecstasy she had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: community, the women and young girls of the village wearing much
of it as ornaments, while to the children they gave some pieces
to play with on the streets.
When they had secured all they wanted they stopped working and
the "noblemen" did not get his house more than half finished. He
had neither provisions nor cattle for the year, and ordered the
people to bring him both. He directed them also to go on with
the building of the palace and factories. He promised to pay
them liberally in gold for everything they did. No one responded
to his call--only once in awhile a little boy or girl would call
to exchange eggs for his gold.
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: he'll scare at one stone or he won't. Five pesos he'll fly or
he won't fly when some one chucks a stone. Who'll take me up?"
That appeared to be more than the gambling spirit of several
outlaws could withstand.
"Take thet. Easy money," said one.
"Who's goin' to chuck the stone?" asked another.
"Anybody," replied Bill.
"Wal, I'll bet you I can scare him with one stone," said the
first outlaw.
"We're in on thet, Jim to fire the darnick," chimed in the
others.
The Lone Star Ranger |
