| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: said:
"I am flattered, senora."
She sighed, placing her hand on my shoulder.
"You laugh at me. You are wrong. Have I chosen this place
for a flirtation? Before, I could not speak; now you must know.
There have been many men in my life, Paul; some fools, some not so,
but none like you. I have never said, 'I love you.' I say it now.
Once you held my hand--you have never kissed me."
I rose to my feet, smiling, profoundly fatuous, and made as if
to put my arm around her.
"A kiss? Is that all, Desiree? Well--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: thing I knew -- she came."
"Who came?"
"Big sister Solly."
"What rot! She didn't come. Content Adams,
you know she didn't come."
"She must have come," persisted the little girl,
in a frightened whisper. "She must have. Oh, Jim,
you don't know. Big sister Solly must have come,
or I would have died like my father and mother."
Jim's arm, which was near her, twitched convul-
sively, but he did not put it around her.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: if I've got to confess --"
"Peradventure she --"
"Never mind her; never mind her; I tell you I
couldn't ever explain her so you would understand."
"Even so be it, sith ye are so minded. Then Sir
Gawaine and Sir Uwaine went and saluted them, and
asked them why they did that despite to the shield.
Sirs, said the damsels, we shall tell you. There is a
knight in this country that owneth this white shield, and
he is a passing good man of his hands, but he hateth
all ladies and gentlewomen, and therefore we do all this
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
