| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: room?"
She got the soap and gave it to her.
"He is going to stay, then?"
"Certainly he is going to stay," Lucy said, surprised. "This is
his home. Where else should he go?"
But David knew. He lay, listening with avid interest to Dick's
story, asking a question now and then, nodding over Dick's halting
attempt to reconstruct the period of his confusion, but all the
time one part of him, a keen and relentless inner voice, was saying:
"Look at him well. Hold him close. Listen to his voice. Because
this hour is yours, and perhaps only this hour."
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: with the clay that was left, he began to make an image of Bessie
Blithesome herself.
This was not so easy, for he found he could not make the silken robe
of the lord's daughter out of the common clay. So he called the
Fairies to his aid, and asked them to bring him colored silks with
which to make a real dress for the clay image. The Fairies set off at
once on their errand, and before nightfall they returned with a
generous supply of silks and laces and golden threads.
Claus now became impatient to complete his new dolly, and instead of
waiting for the next day's sun he placed the clay image upon his
hearth and covered it over with glowing coals. By morning, when he
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: as if she were summoning him to the bar of Judgment.
But the lines were enough. She had only to utter them.
They created the character in spite of her.
The heartless world which Marguerite re-entered with Varville
had never been so glittering and reckless as on the night
when it gathered in Olympe's salon for the fourth act.
There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember,
many servants in livery, gaming-tables where the men played
with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests
made their entrance. After all the others had gathered round
the card-tables and young Duval had been warned by Prudence,
My Antonia |
