| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: good. In his sceptical young mind, fed by Clare's malice, was
growing a comforting doubt of Dick's good faith.
XXVII
When Wilkins had disappeared around the angle of the staircase
Bassett went to a chair and sat down. He felt sick, and his knees
were trembling. Something had happened, a search for Clark room
by room perhaps, and the discovery had been made.
He was totally unable to think or to plan. With Dick well they
could perhaps have made a run for it. The fire-escape stood ready.
But as things were - The murmuring among the crowd at the foot of
the stairs ceased, and he looked up. Wilkins was on the staircase,
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: SOCRATES: I have now said all that I have to say of the art of rhetoric:
have you anything to add?
PHAEDRUS: Not much; nothing very important.
SOCRATES: Leave the unimportant and let us bring the really important
question into the light of day, which is: What power has this art of
rhetoric, and when?
PHAEDRUS: A very great power in public meetings.
SOCRATES: It has. But I should like to know whether you have the same
feeling as I have about the rhetoricians? To me there seem to be a great
many holes in their web.
PHAEDRUS: Give an example.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: bringing her up. Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be
served thereby. But surely it would do no harm to let the child
have one pretty dress--something like Diana Barry always wore.
Matthew decided that he would give her one; that surely could
not be objected to as an unwarranted putting in of his oar.
Christmas was only a fortnight off. A nice new dress would be
the very thing for a present. Matthew, with a sigh of
satisfaction, put away his pipe and went to bed, while Marilla
opened all the doors and aired the house.
The very next evening Matthew betook himself to Carmody to buy
the dress, determined to get the worst over and have done with it.
Anne of Green Gables |
