| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: Johnny hits me, I shall knock him into the middle of next week."
Johnny did not strike. He was a prudent young man.
"Don't fight, Johnny," repeated the girl, turning to the excited
aspirant for the honors of the ring.
"Do you suppose I'll let him tell me I hooked them fish?"
blustered Johnny.
"He didn't mean anything."
"Yes, I did," interposed Tommy. "He caught 'em on a hook; so of
course he hooked em. I hooked mine too."
"Is that what you meant?" asked Johnny, a broad grin
overspreading his dirty face, and his fists suddenly expanding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: spectacles and put them on, gave the page a little dab with her plump small
fingers, and pursed up her lips. "Very sweet!" she crooned vaguely; she
looked at Ethel over her spectacles. "But I shouldn't have the train."
"Not the train!" wailed Ethel tragically. "But the train's the whole
point."
"Here, mother, let me decide." Marion snatched the paper playfully from
Charlotte. "I agree with mother," she cried triumphantly. "The train
overweights it."
Old Mr. Neave, forgotten, sank into the broad lap of his chair, and,
dozing, heard them as though he dreamed. There was no doubt about it, he
was tired out; he had lost his hold. Even Charlotte and the girls were too
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: those who fear. Do not give way nor grieve, for ye shall have the
upper hand if ye but be believers.
If a sore touch you, a sore like it has touched people: these are
days which we make to alternate amongst mankind that God may know
who it is that believe, and may take from you witnesses, for God loves
not the unjust; and that God may assay those who believe, and blot out
the misbelievers. Do ye think that ye can enter Paradise and God not
know those of you who have fought well, or know the patient? Why, ye
longed for death before ye met it! Now ye have looked upon it and ye
halt!
Mohammed is but an apostle; apostles have passed away before his
The Koran |
