| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: himself.
[Enter GERALD.]
GERALD. Well, dear mother, I hope you have settled it all with
Lord Illingworth?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. I have not, Gerald.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Your mother seems not to like your coming with
me, for some reason.
GERALD. Why, mother?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. I thought you were quite happy here with me,
Gerald. I didn't know you were so anxious to leave me.
GERALD. Mother, how can you talk like that? Of course I have been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: (Skip light, ladies!)"
After the dull and exhausting months at Tara it was good to hear
music again and the sound of dancing feet, good to see familiar
friendly faces laughing in the feeble light, calling old jokes and
catchwords, bantering, rallying, coquetting. It was like coming to
life again after being dead. It almost seemed that the bright days
of five years ago had come back again. If she could close her eyes
and not see the worn made-over dresses and the patched boots and
mended slippers, if her mind did not call up the faces of boys
missing from the reel, she might almost think that nothing had
changed. But as she looked, watching the old men grouped about the
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: caution in every movement, till he came to an open place among the
trees, and looking out saw, erect on haunches, with nose pointed
to the sky, a long, lean, timber wolf.
He had made no noise, yet it ceased from its howling and tried to
sense his presence. Buck stalked into the open, half crouching,
body gathered compactly together, tail straight and stiff, feet
falling with unwonted care. Every movement advertised commingled
threatening and overture of friendliness. It was the menacing
truce that marks the meeting of wild beasts that prey. But the
wolf fled at sight of him. He followed, with wild leapings, in a
frenzy to overtake. He ran him into a blind channel, in the bed
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