| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: "Let go me! Let go me!"
"Why--why--" stuttered the youth.
"Well, then!" bawled the man in a lurid
rage. He adroitly and fiercely swung his rifle.
It crushed upon the youth's head. The man
ran on.
The youth's fingers had turned to paste upon
the other's arm. The energy was smitten from
his muscles. He saw the flaming wings of light-
ning flash before his vision. There was a deaf-
ening rumble of thunder within his head.
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: to be like the rest of them?" he asked.
"Madame, I shall never marry Mlle. Victorine," said Eugene,
turning to Mme. Vauquer with an expression of terror and loathing
that surprised the onlookers at this scene.
Father Goriot caught the student's hand and grasped it warmly. He
could have kissed it.
"Oh, ho!" said Vautrin, "the Italians have a good proverb--Col
tempo."
"Is there any answer?" said Mme. de Nucingen's messenger,
addressing Eugene.
"Say that I will come directly."
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: Pierrette, roused by the danger, sat up with superhuman strength,
exclaiming, "No, no, I will go to bed."
Sylvie had, however, touched the corset and felt the papers. She let
Pierrette go, saying to the company:
"What do you think now of her illness? I tell you it is all a
pretence. You have no idea of the perversity of that child."
After the card-playing was over she kept Vinet from following the
other guests; she was furious and wanted vengeance, and was grossly
rude to the colonel when he bade her good-night. Gouraud threw a look
at the lawyer which threatened him to the depths of his being and
seemed to put a ball in his entrails. Sylvie told Vinet to remain.
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