| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Now take my advice and make yourself scarce, though
you'll have to go some to make your get-away now--every
man on the force has your description by this time."
Billy turned without a word and walked east in the alley
toward Lincoln Street. Lasky returned to Robey Street. In
Lincoln Street Billy walked north to Kinzie. Here he entered
the railroad yards. An hour later he was bumping out of
town toward the West on a fast freight. Three weeks later
he found himself in San Francisco. He had no money, but
the methods that had so often replenished his depleted
exchequer at home he felt would serve the same purpose here.
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: gobbled it up so greedily."
"Where are they?" asked Dorothy, in astonishment.
They all looked around, but the piglets had disappeared.
"Dear me!" cried the Wizard; "they must have run away. But I didn't
see them go; did you?"
"No!" replied the boy and the girl, together.
"Here,--piggy, piggy, piggy!" called their master, anxiously.
Several squeals and grunts were instantly heard at his feet, but the
Wizard could not discover a single piglet.
"Where are you?" he asked.
"Why, right beside you," spoke a tiny voice. "Can't you see us?"
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: then uncovered the letters one by one, spelling the name of
Longueville; but he firmly refused to show her anything more.
This incident added to the intensity of Mademoiselle de Fontaine's
secret sentiment, and during chief part of the night she evolved the
most brilliant pictures from the dreams with which she had fed her
hopes. At last, thanks to chance, to which she had so often appealed,
Emilie could now see something very unlike a chimera at the fountain-
head of the imaginary wealth with which she gilded her married life.
Ignorant, as all young girls are, of the perils of love and marriage,
she was passionately captivated by the externals of marriage and love.
Is not this as much as to say that her feeling had birth like all the
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