| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: caught the words "juicy" and "corn-fed."
That particular store prides itself on its cheese department.
It boasts that there one can get anything in cheese from the simple
cottage variety to imposing mottled Stilton. There are cheeses
from France, cheeses from Switzerland, cheeses from Holland. Brick
and parmesan, Edam and limburger perfumed the atmosphere.
Behind the counters were big, full-fed men in white aprons,
and coats. They flourished keen bright knives. As Jennie gazed,
one of them, in a moment of idleness, cut a tiny wedge from a rich
yellow Swiss cheese and stood nibbling it absently, his eyes
wandering toward the blonde gelatine demonstrator. Jennie swayed,
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Susan by Jane Austen: niece with him. Lady Susan had received a line from him by that day's post,
informing her that Miss Summers had absolutely refused to allow of Miss
Vernon's continuance in her academy; we were therefore prepared for her
arrival, and expected them impatiently the whole evening. They came while
we were at tea, and I never saw any creature look so frightened as
Frederica when she entered the room. Lady Susan, who had been shedding
tears before, and showing great agitation at the idea of the meeting,
received her with perfect self-command, and without betraying the least
tenderness of spirit. She hardly spoke to her, and on Frederica's bursting
into tears as soon as we were seated, took her out of the room, and did not
return for some time. When she did, her eyes looked very red and she was as
Lady Susan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: was only one of the millions of Americans who refused to
accept the idea of war. She took it as a personal affront.
It was uncivilized, it was old fashioned, it was
inconvenient. Especially inconvenient. She had just come
from Europe, where she had negotiated a million-dollar deal.
War would mean that she could not get the goods ordered.
Consequently there could be no war.
Theodore landed the first week in August. Fanny stole two
days from the ravenous bins to meet him in New York. I
think she must have been a very love-hungry woman in the
years since her mother's death. She had never admitted it.
Fanny Herself |
