| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: "Ha! Ha! You make the funniest jokes, General. Why
do you stand for that snake of a War Paint, then?"
"I'll tell you, Tenderfoot, I'm fed up with her. But
I'm like that: I just can't tell her so. I'm not brave
enough to tell her to go plumb to hell. That's the way
I am, see? When I like a woman, I get plain silly; and
if she doesn't start something, I've not got the courage
to do anything myself." He sighed. "There's Camilla at
the ranch for instance. . . . Now, she's not much on
looks, I know, but there's a woman I'd like to
have.......
The Underdogs |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: elbow, and looked his cousin squarely in the face. 'In short,' he
asked, 'not manly?'
'Well,' Gotthold hesitated, 'not manly, if you will.' And then,
with a laugh, 'I did not know that you gave yourself out to be
manly,' he added. 'It was one of the points that I inclined to like
about you; inclined, I believe, to admire. The names of virtues
exercise a charm on most of us; we must lay claim to all of them,
however incompatible; we must all be both daring and prudent; we
must all vaunt our pride and go to the stake for our humility. Not
so you. Without compromise you were yourself: a pretty sight. I
have always said it: none so void of all pretence as Otto.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: dropped from the wing of the angel that brought him. On their lips the
phrase means much; on all others it is a deliberate lie. Noticeable, too,"
she said, dropping in an instant from the passionate into a low, mocking
tone, "when people are married, though they should have sixty children,
they throw the whole onus on God. When they are not, we hear nothing about
God's having sent them. When there has been no legal contract between the
parents, who sends the little children then? The devil perhaps!" She
laughed her little silvery, mocking laugh. "Odd that some men should come
from hell and some from heaven, and yet all look so much alike when they
get here."
Waldo wondered at her. He had not the key to her thoughts, and did not see
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