| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Or like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen: 148
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.
'Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie; 151
These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;
Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky,
From morn till night, even where I list to sport me:
Is love so light, sweet boy, and may it be
That thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee? 156
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: jumbled here, so that faces instead of garments filled her
mind's eye. Again and again there swam into her ken the
face of that woman of fifty, in decent widow's weeds, who
had stood there in the Night Court, charged with
drunkenness on the streets. And the man with the frost-
bitten fingers in Madison Square. And the dog in the
sweater. And the feverish concentration of the piece-work
sewers in the window of the loft building.
She gave it up, selected a magazine, and decided to go in to
lunch.
There was nothing spectacular about the welcome she got on
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: from a side-door Pullman, which is another name for a box-car, and ran off the
stuff. Of course I made it clever and brilliant and all that, with my little
unanswerable slings at the state and my social paradoxes, and withal made it
concrete enough to dissatisfy the average citizen.
"From the tramp standpoint, the constabulary of the township was particularly
rotten, and I proceeded to open the eyes of the good people. It is a
proposition, mathematically demonstrable, that it costs the community more to
arrest, convict, and confine its tramps in jail, than to send them as guests,
for like periods of time, to the best hotel. And this I developed, giving the
facts and figures, the constable fees and the mileage, and the court and jail
expenses. Oh, it was convincing, and it was true; and I did it in a lightly
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