| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: can't. The time Hen Scovil fell down the chimbly
and crippled his back for life, everybody said it would
be a lesson to him. What kind of a lesson? How
was he going to use it? He couldn't climb chimblies
no more, and he hadn't no more backs to break."
"All de same, Mars Tom, dey IS sich a thing as
learnin' by expe'ence. De Good Book say de burnt
chile shun de fire."
"Well, I ain't denying that a thing's a lesson if it's
a thing that can happen twice just the same way.
There's lots of such things, and THEY educate a person,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: pride that bordered on insolence. Remembering
this, his anger rose more and more fiercely against
her. To think of her refusing so many decent
men, only to end in this disgrace. "Oh, oh!" he
groaned again.
Then stopping, he lit a cigarette, and tried to
think of other things. He would send her money,
without ever letting her see him. But memories
came again. He remembered--it was not so
very long ago, for she was more than twenty then
--her beginning a flirtation with a boy of four-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: I'm just a poor woman, please take it away.
"Oh, sleep! Sleep! Sleep! Sleep!"
Part 2
"Now," said Ann Veronica, after the half-hour of exercise, and
sitting on the uncomfortable wooden seat without a back that was
her perch by day, "it's no good staying here in a sort of maze.
I've got nothing to do for a month but think. I may as well
think. I ought to be able to think things out.
"How shall I put the question? What am I? What have I got to do
with myself? . . .
"I wonder if many people HAVE thought things out?
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