| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "You'd just as well stop all these baby tricks," he threatened
between his teeth, "they're not going to work. THIS time my mind
is made up."
"Then why are you afraid to talk to me?" asked Zoie sweetly.
"Who said I was afraid?" demanded Alfred hotly.
"You ACT like it," declared Zoie, with some truth on her side.
"You don't want----" she got no further.
"All I want," interrupted Alfred, "is to get out of this house
once and for all and to stay out of it." And again he started in
pursuit of his hat.
"Why, Allie," she gazed at him with deep reproach. "You liked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: feebly, her hands seeking the baby, and Wade covered his eyes and
cowered, too frightened to cry. Then the bushes beside them
crashed apart under heavy hooves and a low moaning bawl assaulted
their ears.
"It's only a cow," said Scarlett, her voice rough with fright.
"Don't be a fool, Prissy. You've mashed the baby and frightened
Miss Melly and Wade."
"It's a ghos'," moaned Prissy, writhing face down on the wagon
boards.
Turning deliberately, Scarlett raised the tree limb she had been
using as a whip and brought it down across Prissy's back. She was
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: arm with his iron fingers, but Marie felt only the burning hand of the
young leader.
"You hurt me," she said.
For all answer he looked at her a moment.
"Have you some base revenge to take--like that woman?" she said. Then,
seeing the dead bodies on the heap of straw, she cried out,
shuddering: "The faith of a gentleman! ha! ha! ha!" With a frightful
laugh she added: "Ha! the glorious day!"
"Yes," he said, "a day without a morrow."
He let go her hand and took a long, last look at the beautiful
creature he could scarcely even then renounce. Neither of these proud
The Chouans |
