| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap--' "
("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
"That's exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")
" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!'
"It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul,
The Hunting of the Snark |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "I don't know as y'u ought to go out in the night air with that
cold, Denver. I'd hate a heap to have y'u catch pneumony. It
don't seem to me I'd be justified in allowin' y'u to," said the
foreman, anxiously.
"You're THAT thoughtful, Mac. But I expect mebbe a little saunter
with Miss Nora will do my throat good. We'll walk real slow, so's
not to wear out my strength."
"Big, husky fellows like y'u are awful likely to drop off with
pneumony. I been thinkin' I got some awful good medicine that
would be the right stuff for y'u. It's in the drawer of my
wash-stand. Help yourself liberal and it will surely do y'u good.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: Day after day, Luis Cervantes remained humble and
silent.
"By God, I actually believe you're in love," De-
metrio said jokingly one morning after the daily treat-
ment. He had begun to like this tenderfoot. From then
on, Demetrio began gradually to show an increasing in-
terest in Cervantes' comfort. One day he asked him if
the soldiers gave him his daily ration of meat and milk;
Luis Cervantes was forced to answer that his sole nour-
ishment was whatever the old ranch women happened to
give him and that everyone still considered him an in-
The Underdogs |
