| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: like confidence? No, madam, every moment that shows me your merit,
only serves to increase my diffidence and confusion. Here let me
continue----
SIR CHARLES. I can hold it no longer. Charles, Charles, how hast thou
deceived me! Is this your indifference, your uninteresting
conversation?
HARDCASTLE. Your cold contempt; your formal interview! What have you
to say now?
MARLOW. That I'm all amazement! What can it mean?
HARDCASTLE. It means that you can say and unsay things at pleasure:
that you can address a lady in private, and deny it in public: that you
She Stoops to Conquer |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: took a tchik, and I started. I looked at the few people passing
in the streets and at the dvorniks. I read the signs, without
thinking of anything. After going half a verst my feet began to
feel cold, and I remembered that in the car I had taken off my
woollen socks, and had put them in my travelling bag. Where had
I put the bag? Was it with me? Yes, and the basket?
"I bethought myself that I had totally forgotten my baggage. I
took out my check, and then decided it was not worth while to
return. I continued on my way. In spite of all my efforts to
remember, I cannot at this moment make out why I was in such a
hurry. I know only that I was conscious that a serious and
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: "Some comes across from Mexico, an' the rest down the river.
Thet river trip is a bird. It's more'n five hundred miles to
any supply point. Bland has mozos, greaser boatmen. Sometimes,
too, he gets supplies in from down-river. You see, Bland sells
thousands of cattle in Cuba. An' all this stock has to go down
by boat to meet the ships."
"Where on earth are the cattle driven down to the river?" asked
Duane.
"Thet's not my secret," replied Euchre, shortly. "Fact is, I
don't know. I've rustled cattle for Bland, but he never sent me
through the Rim Rock with them."
The Lone Star Ranger |
