| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: And throw it away;
I who was fire and song
Will turn to clay."
"I will lie no more in the night
With shaken breath,
I will toss my heart in the air
To be caught by Death."
But out of the night I heard,
Like the inland sound of the sea,
The hushed and terrible sob
Of all humanity.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Striking the electric chain wherewith we're darkly bound."
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, CAN. 4.
The sitting-room of Legree's establishment was a large, long
room, with a wide, ample fireplace. It had once been hung with
a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn
and discolored, from the damp walls. The place had that peculiar
sickening, unwholesome smell, compounded of mingled damp, dirt and
decay, which one often notices in close old houses. The wall-paper
was defaced, in spots, by slops of beer and wine; or garnished with
chalk memorandums, and long sums footed up, as if somebody had been
practising arithmetic there. In the fireplace stood a brazier full
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "I don't like to say," and Rhett shot a look of drunken cunning at
Melanie.
"You'd better say!"
"Le's go out on the porch and I'll tell you where we were."
"You'll tell me now."
"Hate to say it in front of ladies. If you ladies'll step out of
the room--"
"I won't go," cried Melanie, dabbing angrily at her eyes with her
handkerchief. "I have a right to know. Where was my husband?"
"At Belle Watling's sporting house," said Rhett, looking abashed.
"He was there and Hugh and Frank Kennedy and Dr. Meade and--and a
Gone With the Wind |
