| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: creatures. This farmer differed from the city man as a hillock
differs from an artificial golf bunker, though form and substance
are the same.
Ben Westerveld didn't know he was a tragedy. Your farmer is not
given to introspection. For that matter, anyone knows that a
farmer in town is a comedy. Vaudeville, burlesque, the Sunday
supplement, the comic papers, have marked him a fair target for
ridicule. Perhaps one should know him in his overalled,
stubble-bearded days, with the rich black loam of the Mississippi
bottomlands clinging to his boots.
At twenty-five, given a tasseled cap, doublet and hose, and a
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: The herd itself of purpose they reduce
To leanness, and when love's sweet longing first
Provokes them, they forbid the leafy food,
And pen them from the springs, and oft beside
With running shake, and tire them in the sun,
What time the threshing-floor groans heavily
With pounding of the corn-ears, and light chaff
Is whirled on high to catch the rising west.
This do they that the soil's prolific powers
May not be dulled by surfeiting, nor choke
The sluggish furrows, but eagerly absorb
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: she said. "It can't only be an accident. For it was an accident--
it need never have happened."
Mrs. Thornbury sighed deeply.
"But we must not let ourselves think of that," she added, "and let
us hope that they don't either. Whatever they had done it might
have been the same. These terrible illnesses--"
"There's no reason--I don't believe there's any reason at all!"
Evelyn broke out, pulling the blind down and letting it fly back
with a little snap.
"Why should these things happen? Why should people suffer?
I honestly believe," she went on, lowering her voice slightly,
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