| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: properly respected, and the whole piece, with one exception, moved
in harmony with classical rules. That exception was the comic
countryman, a lean marionnette in wooden shoes, who spoke in prose
and in a broad PATOIS much appreciated by the audience. He took
unconstitutional liberties with the person of his sovereign; kicked
his fellow-marionnettes in the mouth with his wooden shoes, and
whenever none of the versifying suitors were about, made love to
Thisbe on his own account in comic prose.
This fellow's evolutions, and the little prologue, in which the
showman made a humorous eulogium of his troop, praising their
indifference to applause and hisses, and their single devotion to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: to the fearful shock that awaited him.
As soon as it grew light enough to distinguish objects,
Troy arose from the coverlet of the bed, and in a mood
of absolute indifference to Bathsheba's whereabouts, a
almost oblivious of her existence, he stalked downstairs
and left the house by the back door. His walk was
towards the churchyard, entering which he searched
around till he found a newly dug unoccupied grave --
the grave dug the day before for Fanny. The position
of this having been marked, he hastened on to Caster-
bridge, only pausing
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Conway.
"If she, too, thought the man with the notes was in lower ten, it
explained a lot, including that piece of a woman's necklace. She
was a fury, Blanche Conway, capable of anything."
"Then why did you countermand that message?" I asked curiously.
"When I got to the Carter house, and got to bed - I had sprained my
ankle in the jump - I went through the alligator bag I had taken
from lower nine. When I found your name, I sent the first message.
Then, soon after, I came across the notes. It seemed too good to be
true, and I was crazy for fear the message had gone.
"At first I was going to send them to Bronson; then I began to see
The Man in Lower Ten |
