| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "And so - you think he committed the - the crime?" Her eyes; were
on the cigarette case.
"Naturally," I said. "A man doesn't jump off a Pullman car in the
middle of the night in another man's clothes, unless he is trying
to get away from something. Besides the dirk, there were the stains
that you, saw. Why, I have the murdered man's pocket-book in this
valise at my feet. What does that look like?"
I colored when I saw the ghost of a smile hovering around the
corners of her mouth. "That is," I finished, "if you care to believe
that I am innocent."
The sustaining chain of her small gold bag gave way just then. She
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: ". . . the group of dances," the man behind her was saying
as he helped the girl next him with her coat, "but I didn't
like that first thing. Church music, not concert."
Fanny found her way back to the ante-room. Theodore was
talking to the conductor, and one or two others. He looked
tired, and his eyes found Fanny's with appeal and
relief in them. She came over to him. There were
introductions, congratulations. Fanny slipped her hand over
his with a firm pressure.
"Come, dear. You must be tired."
At the door they found Fenger waiting. Theodore received
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: being, holds back, denies, hides. On the other hand, there is
a frankness and honesty in openly bad women arising out of
the admitted fact that they are bad, that they hide no
treasure from you, they have no peculiarly precious and
delicious secrets to keep, and no poverty to conceal.
Intellectually they seem to be more manly and vigorous
because they are, as people say, unsexed. Many old women,
thoroughly respectable old women, have the same quality.
Because they have gone out of the personal sex business.
Haven't you found that?"
"I have never," said the doctor, known what you call an
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