| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: Why, mustn't I laugh, Mr. Jessamy?
JESSAMY
You may smile, but, as my lord says, nothing can
authorise a laugh.
JENNY
Well, but I can't help laughing.--Have you seen
him, Mr. Jessamy? ha, ha, ha!
JESSAMY
Seen whom?
JENNY
Why, Jonathan, the New England colonel's servant.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: if it were, you would have no right to speak like this."
"Don't talk foolish. I know. Ain't I heard from a fellow
dot live right here in town how you been acting wit' de boy?
I know what you done! Walking wit' him in de country!
Hiding in de woods wit' him! Yes and I guess you talk about
religion in de woods! Sure! Women like you--you're worse
dan street-walkers! Rich women like you, wit' fine husbands
and no decent work to do--and me, look at my hands, look
how I work, look at those hands! But you, oh God no, you
mustn't work, you're too fine to do decent work. You got
to play wit' young fellows, younger as you are, laughing and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: easy come, easy go. That was why life itself went on so
carelessly and usually ended so cheaply. There were men among
them, however, that made Duane feel that terrible inexplicable
wrath rise in his breast. He could not bear to be near them. He
could not trust himself. He felt that any instant a word, a
deed, something might call too deeply to that instinct he could
no longer control. Jackrabbit Benson was one of these men.
Because of him and other outlaws of his ilk Duane could
scarcely ever forget the reality of things. This was a hidden
valley, a robbers' den, a rendezvous for murderers, a wild
place stained red by deeds of wild men. And because of that
The Lone Star Ranger |
