| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: brothers complain to the authorities. They say
that your brothers are afraid--God forbid!--
that I may do you some injury when my spells
are on me. Mistress, how can any one think
that?--that I could bite the hand that fed
me!" The tears trickled down on the old man's
beard.
Alexandra frowned. "Ivar, I wonder at you,
that you should come bothering me with such
nonsense. I am still running my own house,
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: the sustained flight of oratory that follows.
"Ditta Mull says:--'This thing is the talk of a child, and was made
up by fools.' But I don't think you are a fool, Councillor Sahib,"
said Todds, hastily. "You caught my goat. This is what Ditta Mull
says:--'I am not a fool, and why should the Sirkar say I am a child?
I can see if the land is good and if the landlord is good. If I am
a fool, the sin is upon my own head. For five years I take my
ground for which I have saved money, and a wife I take too, and a
little son is born.' Ditta Mull has one daughter now, but he SAYS
he will have a son, soon. And he says: 'At the end of five years,
by this new bundobust, I must go. If I do not go, I must get fresh
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Sir James Lee was not likely to be a willing fag for them.
"I tell thee, Francis," he said, as Gascoyne and he talked over
the matter one day--"I tell thee I will never serve them.
Prithee, what shame can be fouler than to do such menial service,
saving for one's rightful Lord?"
"Marry!" quoth Gascoyne; "I reason not of shame at this or that.
All I know is that others serve them who are haply as good and
maybe better than I be, and that if I do not serve them I get
knocked i' th' head therefore, which same goeth soothly against
my stomach."
"I judge not for thee," said Myles. "Thou art used to these
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