| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: As I came out of the brightly lit Galleria Vittorio Emanuele into
the darkened Piazza del Duomo I stopped under the arcade and
stood looking up at the shadowy darkness of that great pinnacled
barn, that marble bride-cake, which is, I suppose, the last
southward fortress of the Franco-English Gothic.
"It was here," said my host, "that we burnt the German stuff."
"What German stuff?"
"Pianos and all sorts of things. From the shops. It is
possible, you know, to buy things too cheaply--and to give too
much for the cheapness."
THE WESTERN WAR (SEPTEMBER, 1916)
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that
particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round
it were crowded as full as they could hold.
`Things flow about so here!' she said at last in a plaintive
tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a
large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and
sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above
the one she was looking at. `And this one is the most provoking
of all--but I'll tell you what--' she added, as a sudden
thought struck her, `I'll follow it up to the very top shelf of
all. It'll puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect!'
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: running, and was muttering to himself.
Marie ran forward, and, taking him by the
arm, gave him a little push toward her guests.
"Frank, this is Mr. Linstrum."
Frank took off his broad straw hat and nod-
ded to Alexandra. When he spoke to Carl, he
showed a fine set of white teeth. He was
burned a dull red down to his neckband, and
there was a heavy three-days' stubble on his
O Pioneers! |
