| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: "No man would kick a woman," said Peters, vir-
tuously. "A little choking - just a touch on the
windpipe - that gets away with 'em - and no marks
left. Wait for me. I'll bring back that dollar, boys."
High up in a tenement-house between Second Ave-
nue and the river lived the Peterses in a back room
so gloomy that the landlord blushed to take the rent
for it. Mrs. Peters worked at sundry times, doing
odd jobs of scrubbing and washing. Mr. Peters had
a pure, unbroken record of five years without having
earned a penny. And yet they clung together, shar-
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: but fate was fate, and this young lady's was to pass Park Chambers
every night in the working week. Out of the immensity of her
knowledge of the life of the world there bloomed on these occasions
as specific remembrance that it was regarded in that region, in
August and September, as rather pleasant just to be caught for
something or other in passing through town. Somebody was always
passing and somebody might catch somebody else. It was in full
cognisance of this subtle law that she adhered to the most
ridiculous circuit she could have made to get home. One warm dull
featureless Friday, when an accident had made her start from
Cocker's a little later than usual, she became aware that something
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: He ceased, speechless for fury; and some time elapsed before
I could induce him to resume his narrative.
"You will not, of course, suppose that every bachelor among us
finds his mates at the first wooing in this universal Marriage Chorus.
On the contrary, the process is by most of us many times repeated.
Few are the hearts whose happy lot it is at once to recognize
in each other's voices the partner intended for them by Providence,
and to fly into a reciprocal and perfectly harmonious embrace.
With most of us the courtship is of long duration. The Wooer's voices
may perhaps accord with one of the future wives, but not with both;
or not, at first, with either; or the Soprano and Contralto
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
