| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: "Poor Mary! I am sorry for you."
This girl was an orphan whose mother had recently died, and she
had taken up the business of selling candy, which enabled her to
pay fifty cents a week for her board, at the house of a poor
widow. Katy knew her history, and felt very sad as she thought of
her being deprived of the means of support.
"I don't know what I shall do," sighed Mary.
"I have to take care of my mother now, and shall not have time to
make candy," said Katy.
"Do you mean to give up for good?" asked one of them.
"I don't know."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: you had soiled me for ever. Oh! what a mask you have been wearing
all these years! A horrible painted mask! You sold yourself for
money. Oh! a common thief were better. You put yourself up to sale
to the highest bidder! You were bought in the market. You lied to
the whole world. And yet you will not lie to me.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. [Rushing towards her.] Gertrude! Gertrude!
LADY CHILTERN. [Thrusting him back with outstretched hands.] No,
don't speak! Say nothing! Your voice wakes terrible memories -
memories of things that made me love you - memories of words that
made me love you - memories that now are horrible to me. And how I
worshipped you! You were to me something apart from common life, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: the honors of his little labratory with all the manner
of a Harvard host. This was the fusing oven for silks.
Here was the drying oven. This delicate scale weighed every
ounce of the cloth swatches that came in for inspection, to
get the percentage of wool and cotton. Not a chance for the
manufacturer to slip shoddy into his goods, now.
"Mm," said Fanny, politely. She hated complicated processes
that had to do with scales, and weights, and pounds, and
acids. She crossed over to the Administration Building, and
stopped at the door marked, "Mrs. Knowles." If you had been
an employee of the Haynes-Cooper company, and had been asked
Fanny Herself |
