| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: thrown into new states of ecstasy and embarrassment. Perhaps a
man should not ask a girl such a question. Perhaps it would be
unmaidenly for her to answer it. Having never possessed the
courage to get himself into such a situation before, Charles was
at a loss as to how to act. He wanted to shout and to sing and to
kiss her and to caper about the lawn and then run tell everyone,
black and white, that she loved him. But he only squeezed her
hand until he drove her rings into the flesh.
"You will marry me soon, Miss Scarlett?"
"Um," she said, fingering a fold of her dress.
"Shall we make it a double wedding with Mel--"
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: absent, the moment they are with you they soften and are all kindness and
warmth. As soon as their eyes rest on you, affection and love come bubbling
up. You are so made. Every animal likes you. All people like you. They can't
help it. You can't help it. You are universally lovable, and the best of it is
that you don't know it. You don't know it now. Even as I tell it to you, you
don't realize it, you won't realize it--and that very incapacity to realize it
is one of the reasons why you are so loved. You are incredulous now, and you
shake your head; but I know, who am your slave, as all people know, for they
likewise are your slaves.
"Why, in a minute we shall go in and join them. Mark the affection, almost
maternal, that will well up in Aunt Mildred's eyes. Listen to the tones of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: We are tired of contention with Britain, and can see no real end to it
but in a final separation. We act consistently, because for the sake
of introducing an endless and uninterrupted peace, do we bear the evils
and burthens of the present day. We are endeavoring, and will steadily
continue to endeavour, to separate and dissolve a connexion which hath
already filled our land with blood; and which, while the name of it
remains, will he the fatal cause of future mischiefs to both countries.
We fight neither for revenge nor conquest; neither from pride nor
passion; we are not insulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor
ravaging the globe for plunder. Beneath the shade of our own vines are
we attacked; in our own houses, and on our own lands, is the violence
Common Sense |
