| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: future into which there had entered the subject of a little
delicatessen and restaurant in a desirable neighborhood, with Heiny
in the kitchen, and a certain blonde, neat, white-shirtwaisted
person in charge of the desk and front shop.
She and her mother had always gone through a little formula
upon Miss Fink's return from work. They never used it now.
Gussie's mother was a real mother--the kind that wakes up when you
come home.
"That you, Gussie?" Ma Fink would call from the bedroom, at
the sound of the key in the lock.
"It's me, ma."
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: through Derby? Edwild, whose father was torn limb
from limb upon the rack because he would not confess
to killing a buck in the new forest, a buck which fell
before the arrow of another man; Edwild, whose mother
was burned for witchcraft by Holy Church.
"And Horsan the Dane, Father. How thinkest thou
the safety of the roads would be for either rich or poor
an I turned Horsan the Dane loose upon ye?
"And Pensilo the Spanish Don! A great captain, but
a man absolutely without bowels of compassion. When
first he joined us and saw our mark upon the foreheads
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: for the servant."
The business, however, though not perfectly
elucidated by this speech, soon ceased to be a puzzle.
Catherine found that John Thorpe had given the message;
and Miss Tilney had no scruple in owning herself greatly
surprised by it. But whether her brother had still
exceeded her in resentment, Catherine, though she
instinctively addressed herself as much to one as to
the other in her vindication, had no means of knowing.
Whatever might have been felt before her arrival,
her eager declarations immediately made every look
Northanger Abbey |
