| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: and build a new house within the ancient frame and brick work.
Among other inconveniences of the present edifice, mine host
mentioned that any jar or motion was apt to shake down the dust
of ages out of the ceiling of one chamber upon the floor of that
beneath it.
We stepped forth from the great front window into the balcony,
where, in old times, it was doubtless the custom of the king's
representative to Show himself to a loyal populace, requiting
their huzzas and tossed-up hats with stately bendings of his
dignified person. In those days the front of the Province House
looked upon the street; and the whole site now occupied by the
Twice Told Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: a chalk crayon and wrote on the blackboard above her head.
"Ann Shirley has a very bad temper. Ann Shirley must learn to
control her temper," and then read it out loud so that even the
primer class, who couldn't read writing, should understand it.
Anne stood there the rest of the afternoon with that legend above
her. She did not cry or hang her head. Anger was still too hot
in her heart for that and it sustained her amid all her agony of
humiliation. With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she
confronted alike Diana's sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane's
indignant nods and Josie Pye's malicious smiles. As for Gilbert
Blythe, she would not even look at him. She would NEVER look at
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: boats as a place of refuge in case they should be worsted before
Panama, they turned and plunged into the wilderness before them.
There a more powerful foe awaited them than a host of Spaniards
with match, powder, and lead--starvation. They met but little or
no opposition in their progress; but wherever they turned they
found every fiber of meat, every grain of maize, every ounce of
bread or meal, swept away or destroyed utterly before them. Even
when the buccaneers had successfully overcome an ambuscade or an
attack, and had sent the Spaniards flying, the fugitives took the
time to strip their dead comrades of every grain of food in their
leathern sacks, leaving nothing but the empty bags.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
