| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: with a little funnel-shaped depression in it. He laid
himself down and put his mouth close to this de-
pression and called --
"Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want to
know! Doodle-bug, doodle-bug, tell me what I want
to know!"
The sand began to work, and presently a small
black bug appeared for a second and then darted
under again in a fright.
"He dasn't tell! So it WAS a witch that done it. I
just knowed it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: With scalloped edges gilded--here you have me
Thinking of something else. My wife, you know,--
There's something lacking--force, or will, or passion,
I don't know what it is--and so, sometimes,
When I am tired, or haven't slept three nights,
Or it is cloudy, with low threat of rain,
I get uneasy--just like poplar trees
Ruffling their leaves--and I begin to think
Of poor Pauline, so many years ago,
And that delicious night. Where is she now?
I meant to write--but she has moved, by this time,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Frank. "And he rested them there till the middle of November and
then he lit out. And he set fire to the whole town when he left
and burned everything."
"Oh, surely not everything!" cried the girls in dismay.
It was inconceivable that the bustling town they knew, so full of
people, so crowded with soldiers, was gone. All the lovely homes
beneath shady trees, all the big stores and the fine hotels--surely
they couldn't be gone! Melanie seemed ready to burst into tears,
for she had been born there and knew no other home. Scarlett's
heart sank because she had come to love the place second only to
Tara.
Gone With the Wind |
