| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Clark story was dead for the time. They had run a lot of pictures
of him, however, and some one might turn him up eventually, but a
scent was pretty cold in ten years. The place had changed, too.
Oil had been discovered five years ago, and the old settlers had,
a good many of them, cashed in and moved away. The town had grown
like all oil towns.
Bassett was fairly content. He took the night train out of Chicago
and spent the next day crossing Nebraska, fertile, rich and
interesting. On the afternoon of the second day he left the train
and took a branch line toward the mountains and Norada, and from
that time on he became an urbane, interested and generally
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: handicapped enough by the very fact of her sex." He stared
at her again. "Too bad you're so pretty."
"I'm not!" said Fanny hotly, like a school-girl.
"That's a thing that can't be argued, child. Beauty's
subjective, you know."
"I don't see what difference it makes, anyway."
"Oh, yes, you do." He stopped. "Or perhaps you don't,
after all. I forget how young you are. Well, now, Miss
Brandeis, you and your woman's mind, and your masculine
business experience and sense are to be turned loose on our
infants' wear department. The buyer, Mr. Slosson, is going
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: hall--they began to pile big glass rocks within the entrance, so that
the prisoners could not get out again.
"This is dreadful!" groaned Jim. "It will be about the end of our
adventures, I guess."
"If the Wizard was here," said one of the piglets, sobbing bitterly,
"he would not see us suffer so."
"We ought to have called him and Dorothy when we were first attacked,"
added Eureka. "But never mind; be brave, my friends, and I will go
and tell our masters where you are, and get them to come to your rescue."
The mouth of the hole was nearly filled up now, but the kitten gave a
leap through the remaining opening and at once scampered up into the
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
