| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of
the unconfessed from which elevation he could
be derided.
In regard to his companions his mind wa-
vered between two opinions, according to his
mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them
all heroes. In fact, he usually admitted in secret
the superior development of the higher qualities
in others. He could conceive of men going very
insignificantly about the world bearing a load of
courage unseen, and although he had known
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: "That's the way," said Heise, approvingly. "Do you good."
He drank his off slowly.
"I'd--I'd ask you to have a drink with me, Heise," said
the dentist, who had an indistinct idea of the amenities of
the barroom, "only," he added shamefacedly, "only--you see,
I don't believe I got any change." His anger against Trina,
heated by the whiskey he had drank, flamed up afresh. What
a humiliating position for Trina to place him in, not to
leave him the price of a drink with a friend, she who had
five thousand dollars!
"Sha! That's all right, Doc," returned Heise, nibbling on a
McTeague |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: To whose sound chaste wings obey.
But thou, shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.
From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.
Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
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