| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: hills and brought him to the depot where a train was standing.
The old man looked things over and saw that the wheels were made
of iron. "It will never start," he said. He knew that if his
wagon had heavy iron wheels, his team could never start it. But
his sons said: "It will start all right." They had seen it
before; they knew its past history. Soon the train started,
gathered speed like a whirlwind and went roaring away down the
track. The old man gazed after it and then, much excited, he
exclaimed. "It will never stop!"
The wisest head is no judge unless it has in it the history of
past performances. I had not studied much history in my brief
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: study, but afterward I found it a common trait.
We had gradually come to feel that we were in the hands of
friends, and very capable ones at that--but we couldn't form any
opinion yet of the general level of these women.
"We want you to teach us all you can," Somel went on, her
firm shapely hands clasped on the table before her, her clear quiet
eyes meeting ours frankly. "And we want to teach you what we
have that is novel and useful. You can well imagine that it is a
wonderful event to us, to have men among us--after two thousand
years. And we want to know about your women."
What she said about our importance gave instant pleasure to Terry.
Herland |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: "Was she really his mistress?"
"So they say; at all events, he gave her a great deal of money."
The general outlines were always the same. Nevertheless I was
anxious to find out something about the relations between
Marguerite and Armand. Meeting one day a man who was constantly
about with known women, I asked him: "Did you know Marguerite
Gautier?"
The answer was the usual: "Very well."
"What sort of a girl was she?"
"A fine, good girl. I was very sorry to hear of her death."
"Had she not a lover called Armand Duval?"
Camille |
