| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: runned over. He 's a goner anyhow in about five
minutes--yeh kin see that. Ye 'd better take 'im
outa th' road. Where th' blazes does he git his
stren'th from?"
"Lord knows!" cried the youth. He was
shaking his hands helplessly.
He ran forward presently and grasped the
tall soldier by the arm. "Jim! Jim!" he coaxed,
"come with me."
The tall soldier weakly tried to wrench himself
free. "Huh," he said vacantly. He stared at the
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: "Hold your tongue! take your sticks, and beat when you are ordered!"
replied the drunken men.
The drummer at once took from his pocket the sticks which he had
brought with him, well knowing the result of such proceedings. The
drum rattled, and soon black swarms of Cossacks began to collect like
bees in the square. All formed in a ring; and at length, after the
third summons, the chiefs began to arrive--the Koschevoi with staff in
hand, the symbol of his office; the judge with the army-seal; the
secretary with his ink-bottle; and the osaul with his staff. The
Koschevoi and the chiefs took off their caps and bowed on all sides to
the Cossacks, who stood proudly with their arms akimbo.
Taras Bulba and Other Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: Corsicans explain themselves to God."
"And I," said the daughter, rising, "am Ginevra Piombo, and I declare
that within six months I shall be the wife of Luigi Porta. You are a
tyrant, my father," she added, after a terrifying pause.
Bartolomeo clenched his fists and struck them on the marble of the
chimneypiece.
"Ah! we are in Paris!" he muttered.
Then he was silent, crossed his arms, bowed his head on his breast,
and said not another word during the whole evening.
After once giving utterance to her will, Ginevra affected
inconceivable coolness. She opened the piano and sang, played charming
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