| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: to be hanging on to a woman this way. People
think you're getting taken in."
Alexandra shut her account-book firmly.
"Boys," she said seriously, "don't let's go on
with this. We won't come out anywhere. I
can't take advice on such a matter. I know you
mean well, but you must not feel responsible for
me in things of this sort. If we go on with this
talk it will only make hard feeling."
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: began to walk along the moraines with rapid and uneasy steps. The
day was declining; the snow was assuming a rosy tint, and a dry,
frozen wind blew in rough gusts over its crystal surface. Ulrich
uttered a long, shrill, vibrating call. His voice sped through
the deathlike silence in which the mountains were sleeping; it
reached into the distance, over the profound and motionless waves
of glacial foam, like the cry of a bird over the waves of the
sea; then it died away and nothing answered him.
He started off again. The sun had sunk behind the mountain tops,
which still were purpled with the reflection from the heavens;
but the depths of the valley were becoming gray, and suddenly the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: sails of that ship doomed to arrive nowhere? There
was not a man who didn't think that at any moment the
masts would topple over. From aloft we could not see
the ship for smoke, and they worked carefully, passing
the gaskets with even turns. 'Harbor furl--aloft
there!' cried Mahon from below.
"You understand this? I don't think one of those
chaps expected to get down in the usual way. When
we did I heard them saying to each other, 'Well, I
thought we would come down overboard, in a lump--
sticks and all--blame me if I didn't.' 'That's what I
Youth |
