| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: In Germany they always hear one thing at an opera
which has never yet been heard in America, perhaps--I
mean the closing strain of a fine solo or duet.
We always smash into it with an earthquake of applause.
The result is that we rob ourselves of the sweetest
part of the treat; we get the whiskey, but we don't get
the sugar in the bottom of the glass.
Our way of scattering applause along through an act seems
to me to be better than the Mannheim way of saving it
all up till the act is ended. I do not see how an actor
can forget himself and portray hot passion before a cold
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: that perish.'"
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WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?
CHAPTER I
"You told a LIE?"
"You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!"
CHAPTER II
The family consisted of four persons: Margaret Lester, widow,
aged thirty six; Helen Lester, her daughter, aged sixteen;
Mrs. Lester's maiden aunts, Hannah and Hester Gray, twins, aged
sixty-seven. Waking and sleeping, the three women spent their days
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: a pillow
for thy consort.
11 Is he a brother when no lord is left her? Is she a sister
when
Destruction cometh?
Forced by my love these many words I utter. Come near, and
hold me in
thy close embraces.
12 I will not fold mine arms about thy body: they call it sin
when one
comes near his sister.
The Rig Veda |
