| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: My boys' playroom, in which is a carpenter's bench, a lathe,
and no end of litter, is never tidied--perhaps it can't be,
or perhaps their youthful vigour won't stand it--but my workroom
must needs be dusted daily, with the delusive promise that
each book and paper shall be replaced exactly where it was.
The damage done by such continued treatment is incalculable.
At certain times these observances are kept more religiously
than others; but especially should the book-lover, married
or single, beware of the Ides of March. So soon as February is
dead and gone, a feeling of unrest seizes the housewife's mind.
This increases day by day, and becomes dominant towards the middle
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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: Aunt Melly. Aunt Melly was always so kind and she was especially
so now. The death of their younger sister had affected them very
little. Bonnie had fallen off her pony and Mother had cried a long
time and Aunt Melly had taken them home with her to play in the
back yard with Beau and have tea cakes whenever they wanted them.
Melanie led the way to the small book-lined sitting room, shut the
door and motioned Mammy to the sofa.
"I was going over right after supper," she said. "Now that Captain
Butler's mother has come, I suppose the funeral will be tomorrow
morning."
"De fune'l. Dat's jes' it," said Mammy. "Miss Melly, we's all in
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Eddie if I ever meet him, eh?"
"Now please hurry," she urged. "I don't want you to be
caught--even if you are a murderer. I wish you weren't
though."
"I'm not," said Billy; "but de law says I am an' what de
law says, goes."
He turned toward the doorway with Bridge, calling a goodbye
to the woman, but as he stepped out upon the veranda the
dust of a fast-moving automobile appeared about a bend in
the road a half-mile from the house.
"Too late," he said, turning to Bridge. "Here they come!"
The Mucker |
