| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Tessie's heart was a great envy of this girl who could bridge the
hideous waste of ocean that separated her from her man. Bleeding
France. Yeh! Joke!
The Hatton place, built and landscaped twenty years before,
occupied a square block in solitary grandeur, the show place of
Chippewa. In architectural style it was an impartial mixture of
Norman castle, French chateau, and Rhenish schloss, with a dash
of Coney Island about its facade. It represented Old Man
Hatton's realized dream of landed magnificence.
Tessie, walking slowly past it, and peering through the high iron
fence, could not help noting an air of unwonted excitement about
One Basket |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: buggy-whip, and once trimmed and rigged it was far from being a poor
tackle. Herky-Jerky watched me with extreme attention, all the time
grinning. Then he held out a handful of grubs.
"If you ketch a trout on thet I'll swaller the pole!" he exclaimed.
I stooped low and approached the spring, being careful to keep out of
sight.
"You forgot to spit on yer bait, kid," said Bill.
They all laughed in a way to rouse my ire. But despite it I flipped the
bait into the water with the same old thrilling expectancy.
The bait dropped with a little spat. An arrowy shadow, black and gold,
flashed up. Splash! The line hissed. Then I jerked hard. The pole bent
The Young Forester |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: were a precaution against a cold, compressed her lips, then
returning to her fixed idea, "But the house is mine," she insisted
very quietly with an accent which made me feel that Satan himself
would never manage to tear it out of her hands.
"And so I told the great lady in grey. I told her that my sister
had given it to me and that surely God would not let her take it
away again."
"You told that grey-headed lady, an utter stranger! You are
getting more crazy every day. You have neither good sense nor good
feeling, Mademoiselle Therese, let me tell you. Do you talk about
your sister to the butcher and the greengrocer, too? A downright
The Arrow of Gold |
