| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: the hole so the sound wouldn't float downward into
the room below. "You are jest like all other
women--you got too much curiosity."
"How about yourself?" says she.
"Who was it thought of taking the grating off?"
I whispers back to her. Which settles her tem-
porary, but she says if I don't give her a chancet at
it purty soon she will tickle my ribs.
When I listens agin they are burying that there
Prent McMakin. But without any flowers.
Miss Lucy, she was half setting on, half leaning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: sent up word that Scarlett must dress immediately and come to the
hospital. Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from
slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat
grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her
lap. Off Scarlett went, unwillingly for she had danced till dawn
the night before at the Home Guard's party and her feet were tired.
She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs.
Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as
Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which
she used for hospital work. Gulping down the bitter brew of
parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: a command and saved the Steward's life in one
afternoon. Though why you should have taken all
that interest in either of us is more than I can
understand."
Captain Giles remained silent for a minute.
Then gravely:
"He's not a bad steward really. He can find a
good cook, at any rate. And, what's more, he can
keep him when found. I remember the cooks we
had here before his time! . . ."
I must have made a movement of impatience,
The Shadow Line |
