| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: the time or is losing some of it -- I can't tell which --
for she isn't shocked as easily as she was a few
months ago.
But I got a shock myself recently.
I found out that plants have Sex, you know.
Just think of it -- carrots, onion, turnips, pota-
toes, and everything!
Isn't it frightful to think that this agitation has
spread to the vegetable kingdom?
I vowed I would never eat another potato as
long as I lived!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: with bitterness, "are you always to be unhappy? My dear friend,
what has happened?"
I motioned him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down
the room in the extremest agitation. Tears also gushed from the
eyes of Clerval, as he read the account of my misfortune.
"I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he;
"your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?"
"To go instantly to Geneva: come with my, Henry, to order the horses."
During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation;
he could only express his heartfelt sympathy. "Poor William!" said he,
dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: are they to me?"
In the glare of the midday sun the reflection of a
white tequila bottle glittered on his forehead; and, jubi-
lant, he ran toward the bearer of such a marvelous gift.
"I like this crazy fool," Demetrio said with a smile.
"He says things sometimes that make you think."
They resumed their march; their uncertainty translated
into a lugubrious silence. Slowly, inevitably, the catastro-
phe must come; it was even now being realized. Villa
defeated was a fallen god; when gods cease to be
omnipotent, they are nothing.
The Underdogs |
