| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Yes."
"Mr. Sullivan was attentive to her?"
"Yes. She was the granddaughter of a wealthy man in Pittsburg.
My aunt has been in his family for twenty years. Mrs. Curtis wanted
her brother to marry Miss West."
"Do you think he did marry her?" I could not keep the excitement out
of my voice.
"No. There were reasons" - she stopped abruptly.
"Do you know anything of the family? Are they - were they New
Yorkers?"
"They came from somewhere in the south. I have heard Mrs. Curtis
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: back, lest the light on his face should show her what she
feared to see.
XXXVIII
Anna drove to the chemist's for Owen's remedy. On the way
she stopped her cab at a book-shop, and emerged from it
laden with literature. She knew what would interest Owen,
and what he was likely to have read, and she had made her
choice among the newest publications with the promptness of
a discriminating reader. But on the way back to the hotel
she was overcome by the irony of adding this mental panacea
to the other. There was something grotesque and almost
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: set in the middle of the floor, the room was made dark, a couple
of hymns were sung, and then the spirit of Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes spoke through the megaphone with a Bowery accent, and gave
communications from relatives and friends of the various
confederates. "Jesus is with us", said Dr. Holmes. "The spirit of
Jesus bids you to study spiritualism." And then came the voice of
a child: "Mamma! Mamma!" "It is little Georgie!" cried Dr.
Holmes; and one of the society ladies started, and answered, and
presently burst into tears. A marvelous piece of
evidence--especially when you recall that the story of this
mother's bereavement had been published in all the papers a
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