| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: He had been off dancing with the girls and forgetting that he was
an old fellow, and now his family rather surprised him; he seemed
to think it a joke that all these children should belong to him.
As the younger ones slipped up to him in his retreat, he kept
taking things out of his pockets; penny dolls, a wooden clown,
a balloon pig that was inflated by a whistle. He beckoned to
the little boy they called Jan, whispered to him, and presented
him with a paper snake, gently, so as not to startle him.
Looking over the boy's head he said to me, `This one is bashful.
He gets left.'
Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "Gone? Ah, I missed my maid! I wondered why no lights were lit.
Where did my servants go?"
"Down to the Mexican quarters, an' scared half to death. Now
listen. When Stewart left you an hour or so ago he follered me
direct to where me an' the boys was tryin' to keep Pat Hawe from
tearin' the ranch to pieces. At that we was helpin' Pat all we
could to find them bandits. But when Stewart got there he made a
difference. Pat was nasty before, but seein' Stewart made him
wuss. I reckon Gene to Pat is the same as red to a Greaser bull.
Anyway, when the sheriff set fire to an old adobe hut Stewart
called him an' called him hard. Pat Hawe hed six fellers with
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: up very early and went fishing; they
caught seven fat minnows as a
present for Old Brown.
They paddled over the lake and
landed under a crooked chestnut tree
on Owl Island.
Twinkleberry and six other little
squirrels each carried a fat minnow;
but Nutkin, who had no nice
manners, brought no present at all.
He ran in front, singing--
|
