| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves
could be.
"I'll imagine that I like them," said Anne soberly.
"I don't want you to imagine it," said Marilla, offended.
"Oh, I can see you don't like the dresses! What is the
matter with them? Aren't they neat and clean and new?"
"Yes."
"Then why don't you like them?"
"They're--they're not--pretty," said Anne reluctantly.
"Pretty!" Marilla sniffed. "I didn't trouble my head about
getting pretty dresses for you. I don't believe in pampering
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: strange remark,' said he; 'and A PROPOS DE BOTTES, I never
continue a cigar when once the ash is fallen; the spell
breaks, the soul of the flavour flies away, and there remains
but the dead body of tobacco; and I make it a rule to throw
away that husk and choose another.' He suited the action to
the words.
'Do not trifle with my appeal,' resumed the young man, in
tones that trembled with emotion. 'It is made at the price
of my honour and to the peril of my life. Go - go now! lose
not a moment; and if you have any kindness for a young man,
miserably deceived indeed, but not devoid of better
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and
therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at least
that the cadence might be more agreeable to his ears. Although
neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily
known, for the people saw the distress I was in.
They made signs for me to come down from the rock, and go towards
the shore, which I accordingly did; and the flying island being
raised to a convenient height, the verge directly over me, a
chain was let down from the lowest gallery, with a seat fastened
to the bottom, to which I fixed myself, and was drawn up by
pulleys.
Gulliver's Travels |
