| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: "Like a phonograph. Sure you couldn't use a sip of brandy
where it'd do the most good?"
"Sure."
"Well, then, cut out the weeps and get your beauty sleep, kid.
He ain't worth sobbing over, anyway, believe me."
"He!" snorted Gertie indignantly. "You're cold. There never
was anything in peg-tops that could make me carry on like the
heroine of the Elsie series."
"Lost your job?"
"No such luck."
"Well, then, what in Sam Hill could make a woman----"
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: mother would be displeased. "It is rather too bad of Fred to repeat
my flippant speeches to Mr. Farebrother."
"It was certainly a hasty speech, my dear," said Mrs. Garth,
with whom speaking evil of dignities was a high misdemeanor.
"We should not value our Vicar the less because there was a ridiculous
curate in the next parish."
"There's something in what she says, though," said Caleb, not disposed
to have Mary's sharpness undervalued. "A bad workman of any sort
makes his fellows mistrusted. Things hang together," he added,
looking on the floor and moving his feet uneasily with a sense
that words were scantier than thoughts.
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
THAT DAY
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope,
"THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN"
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time,
CHOLERA CAMP
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights,
THE LADIES
Verses 1889-1896 |
