| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "My dear, you have fallen in love with his clothes."
"It's not his clothes. And I'm not in love. He often wears
others. He wears a white collar like anybody."
"Then that would be a more suitable way to be photographed, I
think. He couldn't go round like that here. I could not receive
him myself."
"He'd never think of such a thing. Why, you talk as if he were a
savage."
The old lady studied the picture closely for a minute. "I think
it is a good face," she finally remarked. "Is the fellow as
handsome as that, my dear?"
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: aspect that she got her nickname of AULD REEKIE. Perhaps
it was given her by people who had never crossed her
doors: day after day, from their various rustic Pisgahs,
they had seen the pile of building on the hill-top, and
the long plume of smoke over the plain; so it appeared to
them; so it had appeared to their fathers tilling the
same field; and as that was all they knew of the place,
it could be all expressed in these two words.
Indeed, even on a nearer view, the Old Town is
properly smoked; and though it is well washed with rain
all the year round, it has a grim and sooty aspect among
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: As ye have seid hier manyon;
Bot I fond cause nevere non:
Bot daunger, which welnyh me slowh,
Therof I cowthe telle ynowh,
And of non other Avantance:
Thus nedeth me no repentance.
Now axeth furthere of my lif,
For hierof am I noght gultif.
Mi Sone, I am wel paid withal;
For wite it wel in special 2450
That love of his verrai justice
Confessio Amantis |
