| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: voice. "Creeping instead of marching, I call it."
At his first words the officers who accompanied him turned
spasmodically, as if startled out of sleep by a sudden noise. The
sergeants and corporals followed their example, and the whole company
paused in its march without receiving the wished for "Halt!" Though
the officers cast a first look at the detachment, which was creeping
like an elongated tortoise up the mountain of La Pelerine, these young
men, all dragged, like many others, from important studies to defend
their country, and in whom war had not yet smothered the sentiment of
art, were so much struck by the scene which lay spread before their
eyes that they made no answer to their chief's remark, the real
The Chouans |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: means of your magic, and we'll put the little monkeys all in a basket
and bring them home with us. Then you'll train them to dance--up here
in your room, where no one can see them--and on Ozma's birthday we'll
put 'em into the cake and they'll know by that time just what to do."
The Wizard looked at Dorothy with admiring approval, and chuckled again.
"That's really clever, my dear," he said, "and I see no reason why
we can't do it, just the way you say, if only we can get the wild
monkeys to agree to it."
"Do you think they'll object?" asked the girl.
"Yes; but perhaps we can argue them into it. Anyhow it's worth
trying, and I'll help you if you'll agree to let this Surprise Cake be
The Magic of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I'll look around for a car. I don't want him driven to doing
underhand things."
"Are you going away?" Elizabeth asked, surprised.
It appeared that he was. More than that, that he was going West
with Dick. It was all arranged and nobody had told her anything
about it.
She was hurt and a trifle offended, and she cried a little about it.
Yet, as Dick explained to her later that day, it was simple enough.
Her father needed a rest, and besides, it was right that he should
know all about Dick's life before he came to Haverly.
"He's going to make me a present of something highly valuable,
The Breaking Point |
