| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: that was her own.
"Do forgive me for saying that about Wade. You know I love him so.
You aren't mad at me, are you?"
"Don't be silly," said Scarlett shortly. "And go out on the porch
and do something for Phil. He's crying."
CHAPTER XV
The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on
the Rapidan--a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg--
and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on
furlough. Scarlett, seeing him for the first time in more than two
years, was frightened by the violence of her feelings. When she
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I think I'll have Robert Edeson, or Richard Mansfield."
"Mansfield's dead," said Jane.
"Honestly?"
"Honest he is. Why don't you get some of these moveing picture actors?
They never have a chance in the Movies, only acting and not talking."
Well, that sounded logicle. And then I read her the place where the
cruel first husband comes back and finds her married again and
happy, and takes the Children out to drown them, only he can't
because they can swim, and they pull him in instead. The curtain
goes down on nothing but a few bubbles rising to mark his watery Grave.
Jane was crying.
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Content thee, man--content thee!" said the Countess, "and quit
my skirt--you are too bold to detain me. Content thyself, I
think not of thee."
At this moment the folding-doors flew wide open, and a man of
majestic mien, muffled in the folds of a long dark riding-cloak,
entered the apartment.
CHAPTER VII.
This is he
Who rides on the court-gale; controls its tides;
Knows all their secret shoals and fatal eddies;
Whose frown abases, and whose smile exalts.
Kenilworth |
