| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: lodging with me last summer and I had to get rid of him. He never changed
his clothes once in two months, and when I spoke to him of the smell in his
room he told me he was sure it floated up from the shop. Ah, every wife
has her cross. Isn't that true, my dear?"
Frau Brechenmacher saw her husband among his colleagues at the next table.
He was drinking far too much, she knew--gesticulating wildly, the saliva
spluttering out of his mouth as he talked.
"Yes," she assented, "that's true. Girls have a lot to learn."
Wedged in between these two fat old women, the Frau had no hope of being
asked to dance. She watched the couples going round and round; she forgot
her five babies and her man and felt almost like a girl again. The music
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: explained Kent. "That was where I found it. Did you get the
securities, Sylvester?" turning to the prisoner.
"No," sullenly. "She did," and a jerk of his thumb indicated Helen
McIntyre.
Helen raised her head and addressed them slowly.
"Jimmie and I expected Barbara to come in at any moment, and he
started to leave when we saw you coming downstairs," she turned to
Mrs. Brewster. "Jimmie declared that if we were found together I
might be compromised. He couldn't explain his presence without
exposing father - we both thought you a forger, father," she
interpolated, as McIntyre took her hand and pressed it
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: the sunshine as they were drawn from the barrels,
turned in the air, and thrust into their sockets. The two
sentinels fired again, independently and ineffectually.
The hunted man saw all this over his shoulder; he was now
swimming vigorously with the current. His brain was as
energetic as his arms and legs; he thought with the rapidity
of lightning:
"The officer," he reasoned, "will not make that martinet's
error a second time. It is as easy to dodge a volley as a
single shot. He has probably already given the command to
fire at will. God help me, I cannot dodge them all!"
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
