| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: I told the boys about these stories, and they laughed at them.
Naturally I did myself. I knew the stuff that savage dreams are
made of.
But when we had reached our farthest point, just the day
before we all had to turn around and start for home again, as the
best of expeditions must in time, we three made a discovery.
The main encampment was on a spit of land running out into
the main stream, or what we thought was the main stream. It had
the same muddy color we had been seeing for weeks past, the
same taste.
I happened to speak of that river to our last guide, a rather
Herland |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: disappeared so mysteriously in the castle; Pitezel had been his
partner in the fraudulent appropriation of Miss Minnie Williams'
property in Texas; it is more than likely, therefore, that
Pitezel knew something of the fate of Miss Williams and her
sister. By reviving, with Pitezel's help, his old plan for
defrauding insurance companies, Holmes saw the opportunity of
making 10,000 dollars, which he needed sorely, and at the same
time removing his inconvenient and now lukewarm associate.
Having killed Pitezel and received the insurance money, Holmes
appropriated to his own use the greater part of the 10,000
dollars, giving Mrs. Pitezel in return for her share of the
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: I don't see why the woman and the children should not be the unit
without the man."
"By the Lord Harry!--Matriarchy! ... Does SHE say all this too?"
"Oh no. She little thinks I have out-Sued Sue in this--
all in the last twelve hours!"
"It will upset all received opinion hereabout. Good God--
what will Shaston say!"
"I don't say that it won't. I don't know--I don't know! ... As I say,
I am only a feeler, not a reasoner."
"Now," said Gillingham, "let us take it quietly, and have something
to drink over it." He went under the stairs, and produced
Jude the Obscure |
