| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: were his lineaments; his tall figure, long and dark locks, his
voice and general bearing, had impressed me with the notion of
something powerful and massive; not at all:--my own features were
cast in a harsher and squarer mould than his. I discerned that
there would be contrasts between his inward and outward man;
contentions, too; for I suspected his soul had more of will and
ambition than his body had of fibre and muscle. Perhaps, in these
incompatibilities of the "physique" with the "morale," lay the
secret of that fitful gloom; he WOULD but COULD not, and the
athletic mind scowled scorn on its more fragile companion. As to
his good looks, I should have liked to have a woman's opinion on
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "What boon would the knight ask?"
"That whatsoever a bad report you hear of your
knight, of whatsoever calumnies may be heaped upon
him, you shall yet ever be his friend, and believe in
his honor and his loyalty."
The girl laughed gaily as she answered, though some-
thing seemed to tell her that this was more than play.
"It shall be as you say, Sir Knight," she replied. "And
the boon once granted shall be always kept."
Quick to reach decisions and as quick to act, Norman
of Torn decided that he liked this girl and that he
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Bricks here, sir, in the main parteetion. . . . '
The builder goggled, gulped, and stared,
The foreman's services were spared.
Thin would not count among his minions
A man of Wesleyan opinions.
'Money is money,' so he said.
'Crescents are crescents, trade is trade.
Pharaohs and emperors in their seasons
Built, I believe, for different reasons -
Charity, glory, piety, pride -
To pay the men, to please a bride,
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