| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: floor--all undertakings which a patient and strong man may
accomplish, but before which the feverish irritations of a woman
must give way. Besides, to do all this, time is necessary--
months, years; and she has ten or twelve days, as Lord de Winter,
her fraternal and terrible jailer, has told her.
And yet, if she were a man she would attempt all this, and
perhaps might succeed; why, then, did heaven make the mistake of
placing that manlike soul in that frail and delicate body?
The first moments of her captivity were terrible; a few
convulsions of rage which she could not suppress paid her debt of
feminine weakness to nature. But by degrees she overcame the
The Three Musketeers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: the task of explaining the Government's plans for
reconstruction, and the need for extraordinary concentration,
now on transport, now on something else, that these plans
involve.
SATURDAYINGS
So much for the organization, with its Communist Party, its
system of meetings and counter-meetings, its adapted Trades
Unions, its infinitely various propaganda, which is doing its
best to make headway against ruin. I want now to describe
however briefly, the methods it has adopted in tackling the
worst of all Russia's problems-the non-productivity and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: Donovan to take as many as three ice cream sodas and two phosphates
a day when Eddie was mixing. He had a way of throwing in a
good-natured smile, and an easy flow of conversation with every
drink. While indulging in a little airy persiflage the girls had
a great little trick of pursing their mouths into rosebud shapes
over their soda straws, and casting their eyes upward at Eddie.
They all knew the trick, and its value, so that at night Eddie's
dreams were haunted by whole rows of rosily pursed lips, and seas
of upturned, adoring eyes. Of course we all noticed that on those
rare occasions when Josie Morehouse came into Kunz's her glass was
heaped higher with ice cream than that of any of the other girls,
Buttered Side Down |
