| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: morning.
CHARLOTTE
But, brother, you are going to make home with us.
MANLY
Indeed I cannot. I have seen my uncle and
explained that matter.
CHARLOTTE
Come and dine with us, then. We have a family
dinner about half-past four o'clock.
MANLY
I am engaged to dine with the Spanish ambassador.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: to me, you know. I could not defend you. Yet I was loyal to you. I refused to
discuss you. I closed up. There was half-estrangement in my home--Uncle Robert
with a face like an undertaker, and Aunt Mildred's heart breaking. But what
could I do, Chris? What could I do?"
The man, his head resting on her knee again, groaned, but made no other reply.
"Aunt Mildred was mother to me, yet I went to her no more with my confidences.
My childhood's book was closed. It was a sweet book, Chris. The tears come
into my eyes sometimes when I think of it. But never mind that. Great
happiness has been mine as well. I am glad I can talk frankly of my love for
you. And the attaining of such frankness has been very sweet. I do love you,
Chris. I love you . . . I cannot tell you how. You are everything to me, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: "Look here, do your best, see. I want to recover
soon and then you can go home or anywhere else you
damn well please."
Discreetly, Luis Cervantes made no reply.
A week, ten days, a fortnight elapsed. The Federal
troops seemed to have vanished. There was an abun-
dance of corn and beans, too, in the neighboring ranches.
The people hated the Government so bitterly that they
were overjoyed to furnish assistance to the rebels. De-
metrio's men, therefore, were peacefully waiting for the
complete recovery of their chief.
The Underdogs |
