| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering
beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth.
But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and
their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on,
as far as Russian Peter's house. The great fresh open, after the
stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things.
They laughed and shouted, and said they never wanted to go home again.
Couldn't we settle down and live in Russian Peter's house, Yulka asked,
and couldn't I go to town and buy things for us to keep house with?
All the way to Russian Peter's we were extravagantly happy,
but when we turned back--it must have been about four o'clock--
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: them. It was a great pleasure to do this. We came to talk about finance
even more than we talked of my writings; for during that Spring I
invested a good deal more rapidly than I wrote. The Petunias had taken
only one-twentieth of a million dollars; and though Mr. Beverly warned me
to rush hastily into nothing, and pointed out the good sense of
distributing my eggs in a number of baskets, still we both agreed that the
sooner all my money was bringing me five or six per cent, the better."
"I have come to think that it might be well were women taught the
elements of investing as they are now taught French and Music. I would
not have the French and Music dropped, but I would add the other. It
might be more of a protection to women than being able to read a French
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: And when my weary arms, with often blows,
Like the continual laboring Wood-man's Axe
That is enjoined to fell a load of Oaks,
Began to faulter, straight I would record
My gifts you gave me, and my zealous vow,
And then new courage made me fresh again,
That, in despite, I carved my passage forth,
And put the multitude to speedy flight.
Lo, thus hath Edward's hand filled your request,
And done, I hope, the duty of a Knight.
KING EDWARD.
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