| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: eyes.
"Carley, it's a stormy sunrise," said Glenn.
His words explained, but they did not convince. Was this sudden-bursting
glory only the sun rising behind storm clouds? She could see the clouds
moving while they were being colored. The universal gray surrendered under
some magic paint brush. The rifts widened, and the gloom of the pale-gray
world seemed to vanish. Beyond the billowy, rolling, creamy edges of
clouds, white and pink, shone the soft exquisite fresh blue sky. And a
blaze of fire, a burst of molten gold, sheered up from behind the rim of
cloud and suddenly poured a sea of sunlight from east to west. It trans-
figured the round foothills. They seemed bathed in ethereal light, and the
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: photographs of the rectories and deaneries at which his landlady
had lived as trusted servant in her time, and the parlour
downstairs bore a clock on the mantelpiece inscribed to
the effect that it was presented to the same serious-minded
woman by her fellow-servants on the occasion of her marriage.
Jude added to the furniture of his room by unpacking photographs
of the ecclesiastical carvings and monuments that he had executed
with his own hands; and he was deemed a satisfactory acquisition
as tenant of the vacant apartment.
He found an ample supply of theological books in the city
book-shops, and with these his studies were recommenced
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: his meaning dispassionately, as if the transaction were
entirely commonplace. "You tell them that you're in a position
to produce proof against me, and ask them what they'll give
for it. Then naturally enough you come to me, and ask
what I'll be willing to pay to have the proof suppressed.
I quite understand that I must bid against these men--and
of course I take it for granted that, since you know
their figure, you've arranged in your mind what mine is
to be. I quite understand, too, that I am to pay more
than they have offered. That is on account of 'friendly interest.'"
"Since you allude to it," Lord Plowden observed,
The Market-Place |
