| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: He thrust out his long arm and snatched his wrinkly vest
from a chair. He took out a cigar, a match. He tossed the
vest on the floor. He lighted the cigar and puffed savagely.
He broke up the match and snapped the fragments at the foot-
board.
She suddenly saw the foot-board of the bed as the foot-
stone of the grave of love.
The room was drab-colored and ill-ventilated-Kennicott
did not "believe in opening the windows so darn wide that you
heat all outdoors." The stale air seemed never to change. In
the light from the hall they were two lumps of bedclothes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: much farther than Euboea, which certain of our men say is
the farthest of lands, they who saw it, when they carried
Rhadamanthus, of the fair hair, to visit Tityos, son of
Gaia. Even thither they went, and accomplished the journey
on the self-same day and won home again, and were not
weary. And now shalt thou know for thyself how far my ships
are the best, and how my young men excel at tossing the
salt water with the oar-blade.'
So spake he, and the steadfast goodly Odysseus rejoiced;
and then he uttered a word in prayer, and called aloud to
Zeus: 'Father Zeus, oh that Alcinous may fulfil all that he
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: to see on the range when I was a boy.
They changed like that. We used to catch them
and put them up in the corral, and they developed
great cunning. They would pretend to eat their oats
like the other horses, but we knew they were always
scheming to get back at the loco.
It seems that a man is meant to live only
one life in this world. When he tries to live a
second, he develops another nature. I feel as
if a second man had been grafted into me.
At first he seemed only a pleasure-loving
Alexander's Bridge |
