| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: you ever think you might run yourself, Jim?" he
asked. On concluding the sentence he laughed
as if he had meant to aim a joke. The loud sol-
dier also giggled.
The tall private waved his hand. "Well," said
he profoundly, "I've thought it might get too hot
for Jim Conklin in some of them scrimmages, and
if a whole lot of boys started and run, why, I
s'pose I'd start and run. And if I once started to
run, I'd run like the devil, and no mistake. But
if everybody was a-standing and a-fighting, why,
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "I could not sleep if I did." Helen passed a nervous finger across
her eyes. "But don't let me keep you and Babs up; it won't take me
long to arrange to-morrow's market order for Grimes."
Under pretense of searching for pencil and paper Helen contrived to
see the address of every letter lying on the table, but the envelope
she sought, with its red seal, was not among them. When she looked
up again, pencil and paper in hand, she found Mrs. Brewster leaning
lazily back and regarding her from under half-closed lids. "You are
very like your father, Helen," she commented softly.
The girl stiffened. "Am I? Babs and I are generally thought to
resemble our mother."
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: men, and either shall I kill you, or you deny your god. Give up
the priest to my pleasure, and you shall depart in peace.
Otherwise your trail ends here. My people are against you to the
babies. Even now have the children stolen away your canoes." He
pointed down to the river. Naked boys had slipped down the water
from the point above, cast loose the canoes, and by then had
worked them into the current. When they had drifted out of rifle-
shot they clambered over the sides and paddled ashore.
"Give me the priest, and you may have them back again. Come!
Speak your mind, but without haste."
Stockard shook his head. His glance dropped to the woman of the
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