| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: that whatever this new thing might be, he meant to fight it out
alone, and that the fighting it out alone was bad for him. He
improved very slowly.
She wondered, sometimes, if it was after all because of Dick's
growing interest in Elizabeth Wheeler. She knew that he was seeing
her daily, although he was too busy now for more than a hasty call.
She felt that she could even tell when he had seen her; be would
come in, glowing and almost exalted, and, as if to make up for the
moments stolen from David, would leap up the stairs two at a time
and burst into the invalid's room like a cheerful cyclone. Wasn't
it possible that David had begun to feel as she did, that the girl
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: a woman. Rosina had one of those frames which are fragile in
appearance, but wiry and full of spring. Her husband, a gentleman of
Piedmont, had a face expressive of ironical simplicity, if it is
allowable to ally the two words. Brave and well informed, he seemed to
know nothing of the connections which had subsisted between his wife
and the Colonel for three years past. I ascribed this unconcern to
Italian manners, or to some domestic secret; yet there was in the
man's countenance one feature which always filled me with involuntary
distrust. His under lip, which was thin and very restless, turned down
at the corners instead of turning up, and this, as I thought, betrayed
a streak of cruelty in a character which seemed so phlegmatic and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: To each of them we gave judgment and knowledge; and to David we
subjected the mountains to celebrate our praises, and the birds
too,-it was we who did it.
And we taught him the art of making coats of mail for you, to shield
you from each other's violence; are ye then grateful?
And to Solomon (we subjected) the wind blowing stormily, to run on
at his bidding to the land which we have blessed,-for all things did
we know,-and some devils to dive for him, and to do other works beside
that; and we kept guard over them.
And Job, when he cried to his Lord, 'As for me, harm has touched me,
but Thou art the most merciful of the merciful ones.' And we
The Koran |
