| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: Eleanor, heard every word, and taking advantage of the fact that
elderly ladies have little continuity of conversation, at least with
those whom they esteem for their youth and their sex, he asserted his
presence by a very nervous laugh.
Cassandra turned to him directly. She was enchanted to find that,
instantly and with such ease, another of these fascinating beings was
offering untold wealth for her extraction.
"There's no doubt what YOU do in a railway carriage, William," she
said, making use in her pleasure of his first name. "You never ONCE
look out of the window; you read ALL the time."
"And what facts do you deduce from that?" Mr. Peyton asked.
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Vauquer's hands.
"How dared you take it?" he asked.
"Good Lord! is that to be buried along with him?" retorted
Sylvie. "It is gold."
"Of course it shall!" Eugene answered indignantly; "he shall at
any rate take one thing that may represent his daughters into the
grave with him."
When the hearse came, Eugene had the coffin carried into the
house again, unscrewed the lid, and reverently laid on the old
man's breast the token that recalled the days when Delphine and
Anastasie were innocent little maidens, before they began "to
Father Goriot |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to see your grand Throne Room, an' p'raps we'd better go into the back
yard, Ozma, where the cabbages grow an' the chickens are playing.
Then it would seem more natural to Uncle Henry and Aunt Em."
"No; they shall first see me in my Throne Room," replied Ozma,
decidedly; and when she spoke in that tone Dorothy knew it was not
wise to oppose her, for Ozma was accustomed to having her own way.
So together they went to the Throne Room, an immense domed chamber in
the center of the palace. Here stood the royal throne, made of solid
gold and encrusted with enough precious stones to stock a dozen
jewelry stores in our country.
Ozma, who was wearing the Magic Belt, seated herself in the throne,
The Emerald City of Oz |
