| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: Laurie walked in silence a few minutes, and Jo watched him,
wishing she had held her tongue, for his eyes looked angry, though
his lips smiled as if at her warnings.
"Are you going to deliver lectures all the way home?" he
asked presently.
"Of course not. Why?"
"Because if you are, I'll take a bus. If you're not, I'd like
to walk with you and tell you something very interesting."
"I won't preach any more, and I'd like to hear the news
immensely."
"Very well, then, come on. It's a secret, and if I tell you,
Little Women |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: on Hare. "I never seen you before. An' I ain't the kind of a feller to
cheat the man you mean."
"I saw you untie the girl's hands."
"You did? Well, d--n me!"
"Nebraska, if I save your life will you quit rustling cattle? You
weren't cut out for a thief."
"Will I? D--n me! I'll be straight an' decent. I'll take a job ridin'
for you, stranger, an' prove it."
"Cut him loose from the others," said Hare. He scrutinized the line of
rustlers. Several were masked in black." Take off those masks!"
"No! Those men go to their graves masked." Again the strange twinge of
The Heritage of the Desert |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: their contemporaries wore their hair in a braid down their
backs.
Besides the queue has a great variety of uses. It serves
him in some of the games he plays. When I saw the boys
in geometry use their queues to strike an arc or draw a circle,
it reminded me of my college days when I had forgotten to
take a string to class. The laborer spreads a handkerchief
or towel over his head, wraps his queue around it and
makes for himself a hat. The cart driver whips his mule
with it; the beggar uses it to scare away the dogs; the
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