| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: his wife.
On the following day Giardini took the Count up to the room where the
Gambaras lodged. Though Marianna fully knew her lover's noble soul,--
for there are natures which quickly enter into each other's spirit,--
Marianna was too good a housewife not to betray her annoyance at
receiving such a fine gentleman in so humble a room. Everything was
exquisitely clean. She had spent the morning in dusting her motley
furniture, the handiwork of Signor Giardini, who had put it together,
at odd moments of leisure, out of the fragments of the instruments
rejected by Gambara.
Andrea had never seen anything quite so crazy. To keep a decent
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: first man to climb a tree. This would demon-
strate that he was indeed a seer.
A moral vindication was regarded by the
youth as a very important thing. Without salve,
he could not, he thought, wear the sore badge of
his dishonor through life. With his heart con-
tinually assuring him that he was despicable, he
could not exist without making it, through his
actions, apparent to all men.
If the army had gone gloriously on he would
be lost. If the din meant that now his army's
The Red Badge of Courage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: the time, and, though he tried hard, he had been unable to stay
far from Nell's vicinity. He believed she cared for him; but he
could not catch her alone long enough to verify his tormenting
hope. When alone she was as illusive as a shadow, as quick as a
flash, as mysterious as a Yaqui. When he tried to catch her in
the garden or fields, or corner her in the patio, she eluded him,
and left behind a memory of dark-blue, haunting eyes. It was
that look in her eyes which lent him hope. At other times, when
it might have been possible for Dick to speak, Nell clung closely
to Mercedes. He had long before enlisted the loyal Mercedes in his
cause; but in spite of this Nell had been more than a match for them both.
Desert Gold |
