| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: when I went away, she gave me her hand unasked, and I could not
but mark, by a respectful and gentle pressure, that I was
sensible of the favour, and grateful for it. My modest
demonstration kindled a little merry smile on her countenance; I
thought her almost charming. During the remainder of the
evening, my mind was full of impatience for the afternoon of the
next day to arrive, that I might see her again.
I was not disappointed, for she sat in the class during the whole
of my subsequent lesson, and often looked at me almost with
affection. At four o'clock she accompanied me out of the
schoolroom, asking with solicitude after my health, then scolding
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: in the corral showed that the horses had fared well. They had
gotten almost fat during his stay in the valley. He watered
them, put on the saddles loosely cinched, and then the bridles.
His next move was to fill the two canvas water-bottles. That
done, he returned to the cabin to wait.
At the moment he felt no excitement or agitation of any kind.
There was no more thinking and planning to do. The hour had
arrived, and he was ready. He understood perfectly the
desperate chances he must take. His thoughts became confined to
Euchre and the surprising loyalty and goodness in the hardened
old outlaw. Time passed slowly. Duane kept glancing at his
The Lone Star Ranger |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a trimming; for
it is naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and
rejected by their ladies, whether fictitious or not, in short by those
whom they select as the ladies of their thoughts, to avenge themselves
in satires and libels- a vengeance, to be sure, unworthy of generous
hearts; but up to the present I have not heard of any defamatory verse
against the Lady Angelica, who turned the world upside down."
"Strange," said the curate; but at this moment they heard the
housekeeper and the niece, who had previously withdrawn from the
conversation, exclaiming aloud in the courtyard, and at the noise they
all ran out.
Don Quixote |
