| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: had chosen it. She was clearly very proud
of his good looks and his fine color.
But, with the glow of an immediate interest
gone out of it, the engineer's face looked
tired, even a little haggard. The three lines
in his forehead, directly above the nose, deepened
as he sat thinking, and his powerful head
drooped forward heavily. Although Alexander
was only forty-three, Wilson thought that
beneath his vigorous color he detected the
dulling weariness of on-coming middle age.
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: effectually hiding him from observation from the rooms be-
yond.
He heard her cross the alcove to the door of the outer room,
and heard the bolt withdrawn followed by the voice of a man
mingled with that of the girl. The tones of both seemed
rational so that he might have been listening to an ordinary
conversation in some foreign tongue. Yet with the gruesome
experiences of the day behind him, he could not but momen-
tarily expect some insane outbreak from beyond the hangings.
He was aware from the sounds that the two had entered
the alcove, and, prompted by a desire to know what manner
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: they got to take in one fellow without the little fellow?' I
want to represent this case myself.''
Adolf has worked for law firms and aided at times as an
investigator of criminal and vice situations. Occasionally he
has been much worried about his own court record. He did not
want it to stand against him. He thought he could get his sister
to swear that he never quarreled at home. Shortly afterwards he
served a short sentence for stealing from a law firm. Later he
came in and said he had a job in the legal department of a large
concern and that he had changed his name because he believed his
old name was ruined. ``I'm determined to be a lawyer. Ever
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