| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: Kid McGarry. Not that it made any difference.
There was no welter-weight from London to the
Southern Cross that could stand up four hours - no;
four rounds - with her bridegroom. And he had
been hers for three weeks; and the crook of her little
finger could sway him more than the fist of any 142-
pounder in the world.
Love, when it is ours, is the other name for self-
abnegation and sacrifice. When it belongs to people
across the airshaft it means arrogance and self-con-
ceit.
The Voice of the City |
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: sized birch switch. I should think THAT would be the most
effective language for that kind of a child. Her temper
matches her hair I guess. Well, good evening, Marilla.
I hope you'll come down to see me often as usual. But you
can't expect me to visit here again in a hurry, if I'm
liable to be flown at and insulted in such a fashion.
It's something new in MY experience."
Whereat Mrs. Rachel swept out and away--if a fat woman who
always waddled COULD be said to sweep away--and Marilla with
a very solemn face betook herself to the east gable.
On the way upstairs she pondered uneasily as to what
Anne of Green Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: and deportment. They did battle as long as they could,
inside the fold, to restore it to the severely
straight and narrow path of primitive Methodism.
When the adverse odds became too strong for them,
they quitted the church and set up a Bethel for themselves.
Octavius chanced to be one of the places where they were
able to hold their own within the church organization.
The Methodism of the town had gone along without any
local secession. It still held in full fellowship
the radicals who elsewhere had followed their unbridled
bent into the strongest emotional vagaries--where excited
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
