| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: profiles, under exaggerated hair, bowed in the harsh north light
above the utensils of their art; for it was something more than
an industry, surely, this creation of ever-varied settings for
the face of fortunate womanhood. Their own faces were sallow with
the unwholesomeness of hot air and sedentary toil, rather than
with any actual signs of want: they were employed in a
fashionable millinery establishment, and were fairly well clothed
and well paid; but the youngest among them was as dull and
colourless as the middle-aged. In the whole work-room there was
only one skin beneath which the blood still visibly played; and
that now burned with vexation as Miss Bart, under the lash of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: goldenrod from her arms. After a few hesitating steps she paused and lifted
her foot from the ground.
"Here, you must not try to walk a step farther," he said, resolutely, noting
how white she had suddenly become. "You have sprained your ankle and are
needlessly torturing yourself. Please let me carry you?"
"Oh, no, no, no!" cried Betty, in evident distress. "I will manage. It is not
so--very--far."
She resumed the slow and painful walking, but she had taken only a few steps
when she stopped again and this time a low moan issued from her lips. She
swayed slightly backward and if Alfred had not dropped his rifle and caught
her she would have fallen.
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: seemed to have escaped his cunning calculation. Though
the door leading from the verandah into the reception
hall swung wide to the balmy airs of late Spring the
prowler passed this blatant invitation to the hospitality
of the House of Prim. It was as though he knew that
from his place at the head of the table, with his back
toward the great fire place which is the pride of the
Prim dining hall, Jonas Prim commands a view of the
major portion of the reception hall.
Stooping low the youth passed along the verandah to
a window of the darkened library--a French window
The Oakdale Affair |
