| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: Finally he lurched forward and fell groaning to the floor.
The women screamed in disgust and drew back their skirts.
"Come ahn," cried one, starting up angrily, "let's get out of here."
The woman of brilliance and audacity stayed behind, taking up
the bills and stuffing them into a deep, irregularly-shaped pocket.
A guttural snore from the recumbent man caused her to turn and look
down at him.
She laughed. "What a damn fool," she said, and went.
The smoke from the lamps settled heavily down in the little
compartment, obscuring the way out. The smell of oil, stifling in
its intensity, pervaded the air. The wine from an overturned glass
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: "My duty I owe to myself and to my family," interrupted Rob. "I have
never cultivated science, more than to fool with some simple
electrical experiments, so I owe nothing to either science or the
Demon of Electricity, so far as I can see."
"But consider," remonstrated the Demon, rising to his feet and
speaking in a pleading voice, "consider the years that must elapse
before any one else is likely to strike the Master Key! And, in the
meanwhile, consider my helpless position, cut off from all interest in
the world while I have such wonderful inventions on my hands for the
benefit of mankind. If you have no love for science or for the
advancement of civilization, DO have some consideration for your
The Master Key |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: big house, you will find that it is curiously
unfinished and uneven in comfort. One room
is papered, carpeted, over-furnished; the next
is almost bare. The pleasantest rooms in the
house are the kitchen--where Alexandra's
three young Swedish girls chatter and cook and
pickle and preserve all summer long--and the
sitting-room, in which Alexandra has brought
together the old homely furniture that the
Bergsons used in their first log house, the fam-
ily portraits, and the few things her mother
O Pioneers! |
