| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: The Return
Gray Eyes
The Net
The Mystery
In a Hospital
IV
Open Windows
The New Moon
Eight O'Clock
Lost Things
Pain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: victory less embarrassing if I were to give you material
immediately for that bulletin on suicide?" He asked the question
quite without emotion, as courteously as if he were proposing a
stroll through the gardens.
O'Halloran had never liked the man. The Irish in him had always
boiled at his tyranny. But he had never disliked him so little as
at this moment. The fellow had pluck, and that was one certain
passport to the revolutionist's favor.
"On the contrary, it would distress me exceedingly. Let us
reserve that bulletin as a regrettable possibility in the event
that less drastic measures fail."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: disfavor.
"What's the matter, Liddy?" I asked at last. "Didn't you sleep
last night?"
"No, ma'm," she said stiffly.
"Did you have two cups of coffee at your dinner?" I inquired.
"No, ma'm," indignantly.
I sat up and almost upset my hot water--I always take a cup of
hot water with a pinch of salt, before I get up. It tones the
stomach.
"Liddy Allen," I said, "stop combing that switch and tell me what
is wrong with you."
The Circular Staircase |
