| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: viewpoint?"
"This is why: Out in Manistee and Oshkosh and Terre Haute, the
girls have just really learned the trick of walking in tight
skirts. It's as impossible to convince a Middle West buyer that
the exaggerated full skirt is going to be worn next summer as it
would be to prove to him that men are going to wear sunbonnets.
They thought I was trying to sell 'em masquerade costumes. I may
believe in it, and you may believe in it, and T. A.; but the
girls from Joplin--well, they're from Joplin. And they're
waiting to hear from headquarters."
T. A. Buck crossed one leg over the other and sat up with a
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "Oh, you'd get used to the pride of it."
"'Tisn't the pride. The laugh is what would ruin me. 'Twould take
'most all my attention keeping a straight face. The
Archbishop"--here he took one of his wide mental turns--"is apt
to be a big man in them Shakespeare plays. Kings take talk from
him they'd not stand from anybody else; and he talks fine,
frequently. About the bees, for instance, when Henry is going to
fight France. He tells him a beehive is similar to a kingdom. I
learned that piece." The Virginian could not have expected to
blush at uttering these last words. He knew that his sudden color
must tell me in whose book it was he had learned the piece Was
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened
with rage.
"Who dares,"--he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood
near him--"who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery?
Seize him and unmask him--that we may know whom we have to hang, at
sunrise, from the battlements!"
It was in the eastern or blue chamber in which stood the
Prince Prospero as he uttered these words. They rang throughout
the seven rooms loudly and clearly, for the prince was a bold and
robust man, and the music had become hushed at the waving of his
hand.
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