| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: extraordinary! I can't see a single invisible hair-pin."
"Powder my back, there's a darling," cried some one else.
"But I must have a needle and cotton. I've torn simply miles and miles of
the frill," wailed a third.
Then, "Pass them along, pass them along!" The straw basket of programmes
was tossed from arm to arm. Darling little pink-and-silver programmes,
with pink pencils and fluffy tassels. Leila's fingers shook as she took
one out of the basket. She wanted to ask some one, "Am I meant to have one
too?" but she had just time to read: "Waltz 3. 'Two, Two in a Canoe.'
Polka 4. 'Making the Feathers Fly,'" when Meg cried, "Ready, Leila?" and
they pressed their way through the crush in the passage towards the big
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Frye's place was took, only wuss...'
The man paused, and another
of the crowd spoke.
'That's all - not a saound nor squeak over
the 'phone arter that. Jest still-like. We that heerd it got aout
Fords an' wagons an' rounded up as many able-bodied men-folks
as we could git, at Corey's place, an' come up here ter see what
yew thought best ter dew. Not but what I think it's the Lord's
jedgment fer our iniquities, that no mortal kin ever set aside.'
Armitage saw that the time for positive action had come, and
spoke decisively to the faltering group of frightened rustics.
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: affair and just judge it--then I'd find a way out. I certainly was in love
with Casimir...Oh, be sincere for once." She flopped down on the bed and
hid her face in the pillow. "I was not in love. I wanted somebody to look
after me--and keep me until my work began to sell--and he kept bothers with
other men away. And what would have happened if he hadn't come along? I
would have spent my wretched little pittance, and then--Yes, that was what
decided me, thinking about that 'then.' He was the only solution. And I
believed in him then. I thought his work had only to be recognised once,
and he'd roll in wealth. I thought perhaps we might be poor for a month--
but he said, if only he could have me, the stimulus...Funny, if it wasn't
so damned tragic! Exactly the contrary has happened--he hasn't had a thing
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