| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: about."
Anne sat up, tragedy personified.
"Mrs. Lynde was up to see Mrs. Barry today and Mrs. Barry was in
an awful state," she wailed. "She says that I set Diana DRUNK
Saturday and sent her home in a disgraceful condition. And she
says I must be a thoroughly bad, wicked little girl and she's
never, never going to let Diana play with me again. Oh, Marilla,
I'm just overcome with woe."
Marilla stared in blank amazement.
"Set Diana drunk!" she said when she found her voice. "Anne are
you or Mrs. Barry crazy? What on earth did you give her?"
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: found Auguste ill in bed. Castaing asked for some cold milk,
which was taken up to the bedroom by one of the servants.
Shortly after this Castaing went out again. During his absence
Auguste was seized with violent pains and sickness. When
Castaing returned he found his friend in the care of the people
of the hotel. He told them to throw away the matter that had
been vomited, as the smell was offensive, and Auguste told them
to do as his friend directed. Castaing proposed to send for a
doctor from Paris, but Auguste insisted that a local doctor
should be called in at once.
Accordingly Dr. Pigache of Saint Cloud was summoned. He arrived
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: borne back by the summer breeze, he heard a few words uttered in that bright
Parisian idiom from which his ears had begun to alienate themselves.
The voice in which the words were spoken made them seem even more
like a thing with which he had once been familiar, and as he bent his
eyes it lent an identity to the commonplace elegance of the back hair
and shoulders of a young lady walking in the same direction as himself.
Mademoiselle Nioche, apparently, had come to seek a more rapid
advancement in London, and another glance led Newman to suppose
that she had found it. A gentleman was strolling beside her,
lending a most attentive ear to her conversation and too entranced
to open his lips. Newman did not hear his voice, but perceived
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