| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: They came near to the colliery. It stood quite still and black
among the corn-fields, its immense heap of slag seen rising almost
from the oats.
"What a pity there is a coal-pit here where it is so pretty!"
said Clara.
"Do you think so?" he answered. "You see, I am so used to it
I should miss it. No; and I like the pits here and there. I like the
rows of trucks, and the headstocks, and the steam in the daytime,
and the lights at night. When I was a boy, I always thought
a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night was a pit,
with its steam, and its lights, and the burning bank,--and I thought
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: The mice that in these mountains dwell,
No happier are than I!
Oh, what a joy to clamber there,
Oh, what a place for play,
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
The happy hills of hay!
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Farewell to the Farm
The coach is at the door at last;
The eager children, mounting fast
And kissing hands, in chorus sing:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: better; there was no use involving a simple situation. And Bev
could be kept out of it altogether, until it was over. Ashamed of
his panic he went back to the theater, got a railway schedule and
looked up trains. He should have done it long before, he recognized,
have gone to Bassett in the spring. But how could he have known
then that Bassett was going to make a life-work of the case?
He had only one uncertainty. Suppose that Bassett had learned about
Clifton Hines?
By the time the curtain rang down on the last act he was his dapper,
debonair self again, made his supper engagement, danced half the
night, and even dozed a little on the way home. But he slept badly
The Breaking Point |
