| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: now. If the brooch was there, it would still be there in the morning,
they assured her, but Minta still sobbed, all the way up to the top of
the cliff. It was her grandmother's brooch; she would rather have lost
anything but that, and yet Nancy felt, it might be true that she minded
losing her brooch, but she wasn't crying only for that. She was crying
for something else. We might all sit down and cry, she felt. But she
did not know what for.
They drew ahead together, Paul and Minta, and he comforted her, and
said how famous he was for finding things. Once when he was a little
boy he had found a gold watch. He would get up at daybreak and he was
positive he would find it. It seemed to him that it would be
To the Lighthouse |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: tell you, Ferguson, that he had recognized Turnbull in his burglar
disguise?"
"No, sir; I never had an opportunity to ask him, for he disappeared
Tuesday night and has not been seen or heard of since," Ferguson
rejoined.
"Hold on," Kent checked him with an impatient gesture. "I had a
telegram from Rochester this morning, stating he was in Cleveland."
"I didn't forget about the telegram," retorted Ferguson. "It was
to consult you about that, that I hunted you up to-night. That
telegram was bogus."
"What!" Kent half rose from his chair.
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: work is to be for the rest of their days.
The Council of Vocations came on the first day
of spring, and they sat in the great hall.
And we who were fifteen and all the
Teachers came into the great hall.
And the Council of Vocations sat on a high dais,
and they had but two words to speak to each
of the Students. They called the Students' names,
and when the Students stepped before them,
one after another, the Council said:
"Carpenter" or "Doctor" or "Cook" or "Leader."
Anthem |
