| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "Don't start anything," says the perfessor to
him. "YOU aren't going to do anything." Or
they was words to that effect.
"Professor Booth," he says, seeing he has got
to say something or else Jane will think the worse
of him, "I am--"
"Keep still," says the perfessor, real quiet. "I'll
tend to you in a minute or two. YOU don't count
for much. This thing is mostly between me and
my wife."
When he talks so decided I thinks mebby that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: horse was long since out of sight.
So he did the only sensible thing he could do. He sat down and took a good
rest, and afterward began walking along the road.
"Some time I will surely overtake them," he reflected; "for the road will
end at the gates of the Emerald City, and they can go no further than that."
Meantime Jack was holding fast to the post and the Saw-Horse was tearing
along the road like a racer. Neither of them knew Tip was left behind, for
the Pumpkinhead did not look around and the Saw-Horse couldn't.
As he rode, Jack noticed that the grass and trees
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had become a bright emerald-green in color, so he guessed they were nearing
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Or it was socks she missed, or night-clothing. And David, inwardly
chuckling, would wonder with her, knowing all the while that they
had clothed some needy body.
On the night before the departure David went out for his first short
walk alone, and brought Elizabeth back with him.
"I found a rose walking up the street, Lucy," he bellowed up the
stairs, "and I brought it home for the dinner table."
Lucy came down, flushed from her final effort over the trunks, but
gently hospitable.
"It's fish night, Elizabeth," she said. "You know Minnie's a
Catholic, so we always have fish on Friday. I hope you eat it."
The Breaking Point |
