| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: for things of this sort - more than he wants. It was so kind of
him to think of me."
"They also send me invitations of this kind - more than I want.
And if thinking of YOU will do it - !" Paul went on.
"Oh I delight in them - everything that's life - everything that's
London!"
"They don't have private views in Asia, I suppose," he laughed.
"But what a pity that for this year, even in this gorged city,
they're pretty well over."
"Well, next year will do, for I hope you believe we're going to be
friends always. Here he comes!" Miss Fancourt continued before
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: before upon the deck, "And if she screams you may choke her."
Rokoff was standing directly in front of the door. Paulvitch
had flattened himself against the paneled wall of the corridor
beyond. The door opened. Rokoff half entered the room, and
stood with his back against the door, speaking in a low whisper
to the woman, whom Tarzan could not see. Then Tarzan heard the
woman's voice, level, but loud enough to distinguish her words.
"No, Nikolas," she was saying, "it is useless. Threaten as you
will, I shall never accede to your demands. Leave the room,
please; you have no right here. You promised not to enter."
"Very well, Olga, I shall not enter; but before I am done
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: did? His farm in the Elbe valley, indeed!
Ain't he got plenty brothers and sisters? It's
his mother's farm, and why don't he stay
at home and help her? Haven't I seen his
mother out in the morning at five o'clock with
her ladle and her big bucket on wheels, putting
liquid manure on the cabbages? Don't I know
the look of old Eva Shabata's hands? Like an
old horse's hoofs they are--and this fellow
wearing gloves and rings! Engaged, indeed!
You aren't fit to be out of school, and that's
O Pioneers! |
