| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: The prisoners gave a detailed account of the tremendous
defeat of Villa at Celaya. Demetrio's men listened in
silence, stupefied.
Before resuming their march, they built a fire on which
to roast some bull meat. Anastasio Montanez, searching
for food among the huizache trees, descried the close-
cropped neck of Valderrama's horse in the distance
among the rocks.
"Hey! Come here, you fool, after all there ain't been
no gravy!" he shouted.
Whenever anything was said about shooting someone,
The Underdogs |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded
by our savages, therefore, one male will be sufficient to serve
four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year
old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune,
through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck
plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and
fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an
entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the
fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned
with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the
fourth day, especially in winter.
A Modest Proposal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "I am unworthy to touch it," said Varney, dropping on one knee,
"save as a subject honours that of a prince."
He touched with his lips those fair and slender fingers, so
richly loaded with rings and jewels; then rising, with graceful
gallantry, was about to hand her to the chair of state, when she
said, "No, good Master Richard Varney, I take not my place there
until my lord himself conducts me. I am for the present but a
disguised Countess, and will not take dignity on me until
authorized by him whom I derive it from."
"I trust, my lady," said Foster, "that in doing the commands of
my lord your husband, in your restraint and so forth, I have not
Kenilworth |
