| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: That poor orphan child is on her way from France - everybody is
full of the subject. Her father was General Alison's brother;
married a beautiful young Spanish lady ten years ago, and has never
been in America since. They lived in Spain a year or two, then
went to France. Both died some months ago. This little girl that
is coming is the only child. General Alison is glad to have her.
He has never seen her. He is a very nice old bachelor, but is an
old bachelor just the same and isn't more than about a year this
side of retirement by age limit; and so what does he know about
taking care of a little maid nine years old? If I could have her
it would be another matter, for I know all about children, and they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: Levin stopped the horse.
The morning dew was still lying on the thick undergrowth of the
grass, and that he might not get his feet wet, Sergey Ivanovitch
asked his brother to drive him in the trap up to the willow-tree
from which the carp was caught. Sorry as Konstantin Levin was to
crush down his mowing- grass, he drove him into the meadow. The
high grass softly turned about the wheels and the horse's legs,
leaving its seeds clinging to the wet axles and spokes of the
wheels. His brother seated himself under a bush, arranging his
tackle, while Levin led the horse away, fastened him up, and
walked into the vast gray-green sea of grass unstirred by the
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: his gun was not loaded. He stood trying to
rally his faltering intellect so that he might rec-
ollect the moment when he had loaded, but he
could not.
A hatless general pulled his dripping horse to
a stand near the colonel of the 304th. He shook
his fist in the other's face. "You 've got to hold
'em back!" he shouted, savagely; "you 've got
to hold 'em back!"
In his agitation the colonel began to stammer.
"A-all r-right, General, all right, by Gawd! We-
The Red Badge of Courage |
