| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the
same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the
first, through the blue chamber to the purple--through the purple
to the green--through the green to the orange--through this again
to the white--and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement
had been made to arrest him. It was then, however, that the Prince
Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary
cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers, while none
followed him on account of a deadly terror that had seized upon
all. He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid
impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: this trick in order to get back to Black Hawk without her.
She had no choice but to go on to Kansas City and take the first
fast train for home.
Cutter could have got home a day earlier than his wife by any
one of a dozen simpler devices; he could have left her in the
Omaha hotel, and said he was going on to Chicago for a few days.
But apparently it was part of his fun to outrage her feelings
as much as possible.
`Mr. Cutter will pay for this, Mrs. Burden. He will pay!'
Mrs. Cutter avouched, nodding her horse-like head and
rolling her eyes.
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: witty and keen."
"Like those of Beaumarchais," said Lady Dudley.
"Monsieur Nathan is not Moliere as yet, but--" said Madame d'Espard,
looking at the countess.
"He makes vaudevilles," said Madame Charles de Vandenesse.
"And unmakes ministries," added Madame de Manerville.
The countess was silent; she wanted to answer with a sharp repartee;
her heart was bounding with anger, but she could find nothing better
to say than,--
"He will make them, perhaps."
All the women looked at each other with mysterious significance. When
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