| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: on. 'Swear to me before God that there is no one in there; I will
believe you--I will never open that door.'
"Madame de Merret took up the crucifix and said, 'I swear it.'
" 'Louder,' said her husband; 'and repeat: "I swear before God that
there is nobody in that closet." ' She repeated the words without
flinching.
" 'That will do,' said Monsieur de Merret coldly. After a moment's
silence: 'You have there a fine piece of work which I never saw
before,' said he, examining the crucifix of ebony and silver, very
artistically wrought.
" 'I found it at Duvivier's; last year when that troop of Spanish
La Grande Breteche |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: about a heap of things."
But to her surprise the Simmons boys, who had started a brick kiln,
and Kells Whiting, who was selling a preparation made up in his
mother's kitchen, that was guaranteed to straighten the kinkiest
negro hair in six applications, smiled politely, thanked her and
refused. It was the same with the dozen others she approached. In
desperation she raised the wage she was offering but she was still
refused. One of Mrs. Merriwether's nephews observed impertinently
that while he didn't especially enjoy driving a dray, it was his
own dray and he would rather get somewhere under his own steam than
Scarlett's.
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The girl looked at him wide eyed for a moment.
"No!" she exclaimed vehemently, much too vehemently he
thought. "It could not be. They were savages."
Clayton looked puzzled.
"He is a strange, half-savage creature of the jungle, Miss
Porter. We know nothing of him. He neither speaks nor
understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and
weapons are those of the West Coast savages."
Clayton was speaking rapidly.
"There are no other human beings than savages within
hundreds of miles, Miss Porter. He must belong to the tribes
Tarzan of the Apes |
