| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: been. As an animal merely he had been a far more perfect one of
his kind than the bay stallion, about the laming of which the
fireman was so angry.
Yet he had been done to death, and no one was sorry for him as a
man, nor was any one sorry that so fine a working animal had
perished. The only feeling evinced was that of annoyance because
of the bother caused by the necessity of getting this body,
threatening putrefaction, out of the way. The doctor and his
assistant entered the hospital, accompanied by the inspector of
the police station. The doctor was a thick-set man, dressed in
pongee silk coat and trousers of the same material, closely
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: unjust, she began to draw away; at first in tear-
ful amazement, then in quiet, unspoken dis-
gust. The distance between them had widened
and hardened. It no longer contracted and
brought them suddenly together. The spark of
her life went somewhere else, and he was always
watching to surprise it. He knew that some-
where she must get a feeling to live upon, for
she was not a woman who could live without
loving. He wanted to prove to himself the
wrong he felt. What did she hide in her heart?
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: presence. Miss Vida Sherwin the ever popular teacher in our
high school pleased as Mrs. Grimm, Dr. Gould was well suited in
the role of young lover-girls you better look out, remember the
doc is a bachelor. The local Four Hundred also report that he
is a great hand at shaking the light fantastic tootsies in the
dance. As the stenographer Rita Simons was pretty as a picture,
and Miss Ella Stowbody's long and intensive study of the drama
and kindred arts in Eastern schools was seen in the fine finish
of her part.
. . .to no one is greater credit to be given than to Mrs. Will
Kennicott on whose capable shoulders fell the burden of directing.
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