| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: corner. He kept looking over his shoulder to see if
they were being followed.
Arrived in her room, they discussed their plans for
the day of days.
"I'll come round soon in the morning, and we'll
spend the whole day at the Beach," he suggested.
She lifted her hands in protest.
"No--no!"
"No?"
"Not on our wedding-day, Jim!"
"Why?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: shoes and blouses and lingerie and silk stockings. She was
forever buying a vivid necktie for her father and dressing up her
protesting mother in gay colors that went ill with the drab,
wrinkled face. "If it wasn't for me, you'd go round looking
like one of those Polack women down by the tracks," Tessie would
scold. "It's a wonder you don't wear a shawl!"
That was the Tessie of six months ago, gay, carefree, holding the
reins of her life in her own two capable hands. Three nights a
week, and Sunday, she saw Chuck Mory. When she went downtown on
Saturday night it was frankly to meet Chuck, who was waiting for
her on Schroeder's drugstore corner. He knew it, and she knew
One Basket |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "It's me!" he said, in a pleased yet awed whisper.
"'Course it is," replied the girl, "and we're all as glad as
you are, Button-Bright."
"Well," announced the shaggy man, "it's my turn next." He took off
his shaggy coat and laid it on the grass and dived head first into the
Truth Pond.
When he came up the donkey head had disappeared, and the shaggy man's
own shaggy head was in its place, with the water dripping in little
streams from his shaggy whiskers. He scrambled ashore and shook
himself to get off some of the wet, and then leaned over the pool to
look admiringly at his reflected face.
The Road to Oz |
