| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: the contrary, of setting me in the right direction. Love always
makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. If you knew
Marguerite, you would understand that I am in no danger. She is
as noble as the noblest of women. There is as much
disinterestedness in her as there is cupidity in others."
"All of which does not prevent her from accepting the whole of
your fortune, for the sixty thousand francs which come to you
from your mother, and which you are giving her, are, understand
me well, your whole fortune."
My father had probably kept this peroration and this threat for
the last stroke. I was firmer before these threats than before
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: Bear Creek, Wyoming; she was going home to Bennington, Vermont.
When time came for school to open again, there should be a new
schoolmarm.
This was the momentous result of that visit which the Virginian
had paid her. He had told her that he was coming for his hour
soon. From that hour she had decided to escape. She was running
away from her own heart. She did not dare to trust herself face
to face again with her potent, indomitable lover. She longed for
him, and therefore she would never see him again. No great-aunt
at Dunbarton, or anybody else that knew her and her family,
should ever say that she had married below her station, had been
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Just then the Wooden Sawhorse dashed into the courtyard with the
Wizard of Oz on his back. "Have you found Ozma?"cried the Wizard
when the Sawhorse stopped beside them.
"Not yet," said Dorothy. "Doesn't Glinda the Good know where she is?"
"No. Glinda's Book of Records and all her magic instruments are gone.
Someone must have stolen them."
"Goodness me!"exclaimed Dorothy in alarm. "This is the biggest steal
I ever heard of. Who do you think did it, Wizard?"
"I've no idea," he answered.
"But I have come to get my own bag of
magic tools and carry them to Glinda. She is so much more powerful
The Lost Princess of Oz |
