| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: vision, we found nothing abnormal. Weight 114 lbs.; height 5 ft.
Notable was her strong features, deep set eyes, high, broad
forehead and sharp chin.
Our study of her on the mental side led us to denominate her as
having fair general ability. She had had poor educational
advantages. We noted much irregularity on work on tests. She
did comparatively poorly on anything that called for careful
attention and concentration. This was especially notable when
she was dealing with abstractions or situations to be mentally
represented. Although she could do arithmetic up to simple
division she made a bad failure in the continued process of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: him; as--so Goethe once said with pity--the horse's single hoof
cramps the fine intelligence and generosity of his nature, and
forbids him even to grasp an object, like the more stupid cat, and
baser monkey. And man has a self, too, within, from which he
longs too often to escape, as from a household ghost; who pulls
out, at unfortunately rude and unwelcome hours, the ledger of
memory. And so when the tempter--be he who he may--says to him,
"Take this, and you will 'feel better.' Take this, and you shall
be as gods, knowing good and evil:" then, if the temptation was,
as the old story says, too much for man while healthy and
unfallen, what must it be for his unhealthy and fallen children?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: she suddenly flew up in a tree and sat there with her noise still
going; but it had risen lately several notes into a slim, acute
level of terror, and was not like machinery any more, nor like
any sound I ever heard before or since. Below the tree stood the
bewildered little chicken, cheeping, and making tiny jumps to
reach its mother.
"Yes," said the Virginian, "it's comical. Even her aigg acted
different from anybody else's." He paused, and looked across the
wide, mellowing plain with the expression of easy-going gravity
so common with him. Then he looked at Em'ly in the tree and the
yellow chicken.
The Virginian |
