| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: discourage me."
"Don't want to. But I'd hate to see you come down
with a thud." Suddenly he sat up and a grin overspread
his thin face. "Tell you what we'll do, girlie. We'll
celebrate. Maybe it'll be the last time. Let's pretend
this is six months ago, and everything's serene. You get
your bonnet. I'll get the machine. It's too hot to
work, anyway. We'll take a spin out to somewhere that's
cool, and we'll order cold things to eat, and cold things
to drink, and you can talk about yourself till you're
tired. You'll have to take it out on somebody, an' it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: snare of self-pity, and sobbing.
"To cherish, protect, and advise you. And you must needs go out
of it all alone into a strange world of unknown dangers-"
"I wanted to learn," said Jessie.
"You wanted to learn. May you never have anything to UNlearn."
"AH!" from Mrs. Milton, very sadly.
"It isn't fair for all of you to argue at me at once," submitted
Jessie, irrelevantly.
"A world full of unknown dangers," resumed the clergyman. "Your
proper place was surely the natural surroundings that are part of
you. You have been unduly influenced, it is only too apparent, by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: nor will my advice profit you, should I wish to. advise you, if God
wish to lead you into error. He is your Lord, and unto Him shall ye be
returned.'
Do they say, 'He has devised it?' Say, 'If I have devised it, then
on me be my sin. But I am clear of that wherein ye sin.'
And Noah was inspired, 'None shall surely believe amongst thy people
but those who have believed already; take not then ill that which they
do. And make the ark under our eyes, and at our inspiration; and plead
not with me for those who have done wrong; verily, they shall be
drowned.'
So he made the ark, and every time the chiefs of his people passed
The Koran |
