| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and it is quite evident that last night's work has helped to take
some of the brooding weight off his mind.
After going over the adventure of the night he suddenly said, "Your patient
interests me much. May it be that with you I visit him this morning?
Or if that you are too occupy, I can go alone if it may be.
It is a new experience to me to find a lunatic who talk philosophy,
and reason so sound."
I had some work to do which pressed, so I told him that if he would go
alone I would be glad, as then I should not have to keep him waiting,
so I called an attendant and gave him the necessary instructions.
Before the Professor left the room I cautioned him against getting any
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: a message. 'Wants 500 preferred does he? Buyer 30? Very well, he can't
have it. Say so from me. Now,' he resumed to me, 'take a cigar by the
way. And don't buy any more Petunias until I tell you the right moment.
Do you see where your Amalgamated Electric has gone to?'"
"I had seen this. It had scored a 20-point rise since my purchase of it;
and I felt very sorry that I had not taken Mr. Beverly's advice and
bought a thousand shares. It had been on a day when I had felt
unaccountably cautious, and I had taken only two hundred and fifty shares
of Amalgamated Electric. There are days when one is cautious and days
when one is venturesome; and they seem to have nothing to do with
results."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: salts-and-quinine peddlers, but I mean: so many of my
patients are husky farmers that I suppose I get kind of case-
hardened."
"It seems to me that a doctor could transform a whole
community, if he wanted to--if he saw it. He's usually the
only man in the neighborhood who has any scientific training,
isn't he?"
"Yes, that's so, but I guess most of us get rusty. We land
in a rut of obstetrics and typhoid and busted legs. What we
need is women like you to jump on us. It'd be you that would
transform the town."
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