| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: tree. The pastor was again lost in thought. "Aren't you going
to play any more?" There was a shade of disappointment in her
voice. She came slowly to his side.
"Sit here, Polly," he answered gravely, pointing to a place on
the bench. "I want to talk to you."
"Now, I've done something wrong," she pouted. She gathered up
her garlands and brought them to a place near his feet, ignoring
the seat at his side. "You might just as well tell me and get it
over."
"You couldn't do anything wrong," he answered, looking down at
her.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: were backward or forward. He seemed to feel
that by his own irreproachable regularity he
would clear himself of blame and reprove the
weather. When the wheat crop failed, he
threshed the straw at a dead loss to demon-
strate how little grain there was, and thus
prove his case against Providence.
Lou, on the other hand, was fussy and
flighty; always planned to get through two
days' work in one, and often got only the least
O Pioneers! |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: now would be to strike against their own decisions. At the
same time, certain tendencies to Syndicalism were still in
existence, tendencies which might well lead to conflict
between different unions, so that, for example, the match
makers or the metal worker, might wish to strike a bargain
with the State, as of one country with another, and this
might easily lead to a complete collapse of the socialist system.
The one thing on which the speakers were in complete
agreement was the absolute need of an effort in industry
equal to, if not greater than, the effort made in the army. I
thought it significant that in many of the speeches the
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