| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: With little cries of love.
[Enter DUKE equipped for the chase, with falconers and hounds.]
DUKE
Madam, you keep us waiting;
You keep my dogs waiting.
DUCHESS
I will not ride to-day.
DUKE
How now, what's this?
DUCHESS
My Lord, I cannot go.
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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: platform-- high, clear young voices; almost like the voices of
children, shouting.
Well, you wrote letters--fat, bulging letters--and in turn you
received equally plump envelopes with a red emblem in one corner.
You sent boxes of homemade fudge (nut variety) and cookies and
the more durable forms of cake.
Then, unaccountably, Chuck was whisked all the way to California.
He was furious at parting with his mates, and his indignation was
expressed in his letters to Tessie. She sympathized with him in
her replies. She tried to make light of it, but there was a
little clutch of terror in it, too. California! Might as well
One Basket |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and that along the verandah rafters above them hung
the grisly trophies of their prowess.
Yet as she glanced from them to her new captors she
could not but feel that she would prefer captivity in
one of the settlements they were passing--there at
least she might find an opportunity to communicate with
her father, or be discovered by the rescue party as it
came up the river. The idea grew upon her as the day
advanced until she spent the time in watching furtively
for some means of escape should they but touch the
shore momentarily; and though they halted twice her
The Monster Men |
