| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel
which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting
it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face.
But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell upon me,
with all their blaze of basilisk horror. The sight seemed
to paralyze me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced
from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.
The shovel fell from my hand across the box,and as I pulled
it away the flange of the blade caught the edge of the lid
which fell over again, and hid the horrid thing from my sight.
The last glimpse I had was of the bloated face, blood-stained and
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: Marie's uncle hugged her until she cried, "Please
don't, Uncle Joe! You hurt me." Each of Joe's
friends gave her a bag of candy, and she kissed
them all around, though she did not like coun-
try candy very well. Perhaps that was why she
bethought herself of Emil. "Let me down,
Uncle Joe," she said, "I want to give some of
my candy to that nice little boy I found." She
walked graciously over to Emil, followed by her
lusty admirers, who formed a new circle and
teased the little boy until he hid his face in his
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Although thy husband may be Menelaus;
And ne'er was Agamemmon's brother wrong'd
By that false woman as this king by thee.
His father revell'd in the heart of France,
And tam'd the king, and made the dauphin stoop;
And, had he match'd according to his state,
He might have kept that glory to this day;
But when he took a beggar to his bed,
And grac'd thy poor sire with his bridal day,
Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him
That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France
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