| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves
could be.
"I'll imagine that I like them," said Anne soberly.
"I don't want you to imagine it," said Marilla, offended.
"Oh, I can see you don't like the dresses! What is the
matter with them? Aren't they neat and clean and new?"
"Yes."
"Then why don't you like them?"
"They're--they're not--pretty," said Anne reluctantly.
"Pretty!" Marilla sniffed. "I didn't trouble my head about
getting pretty dresses for you. I don't believe in pampering
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Let her go rich and wise, in silk and fur;
Lay down a { bin that shall } grow old with her;
{ vintage to }
But thou, meantime, the while the batch is sound,
With pleased companions pass the bowl around;
Nor let the childless only taste delights,
For Fathers also may enjoy their nights.
IN CHARIDEMUM
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung,
And watched me all the days that I was young;
You, at whose step the laziest slaves awake,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: a beat left in his heart, kill, kill, kill. These men all had
rifles. The fight would be short. But the marksmen did not live
on earth who could make such a fight go wholly against him.
Confronting them suddenly he could kill a man for every shot in
his gun.
Thus Duane reasoned. So he hoped to accept his fate--to meet
this end. But when he tried to step forward something checked
him. He forced himself; yet he could not go. The obstruction
that opposed his will was as insurmountable as it had been
physically impossible for him to climb the bluff.
Slowly he fell back, crouched low, and then lay flat. The grim
The Lone Star Ranger |
