| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: I didn't, and that settles it. It's a bad break I'm
making, Johnny, but I can't dodge it. You helped
me once, and it calls for the same."
"I knew it," said Kernan, raising his glass, with
a flushed smile of self-appreciation. "I can judge
men. Here's to Barney, for -- 'he's a jolly good
fellow.' "
"I don't believe," went on Woods quietly, as if be
were thinking aloud, "that if accounts had been
square between you and me, all the money in all the
banks in New York could have bought you out of
The Voice of the City |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: And this was the picnic of the Catholics of Octavius.
He gazed in mingled amazement and exhilaration upon
the spectacle. There seemed to be literally thousands
of people on the open fields before him, and apparently
there were still other thousands in the fringes of the woods
round about. The noises which arose from this multitude--
the shouts of the lads in the water, the playful
squeals of the girls in the swings, the fused uproar
of the more distant crowds, and above all the diligent,
ordered strains of the dance-music proceeding from
some invisible distance in the greenwood--charmed his
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive
You have but jested with me all this while:
I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.
KATHERINA.
If that be jest, then an the rest was so.
[Strikes her.]
[Enter BAPTISTA.]
BAPTISTA.
Why, how now, dame! Whence grows this insolence?
Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps.
Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.
The Taming of the Shrew |
