| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: he fell inside the fence, and Lin druv the bull back and somebody
stole them Medicine Bow galoshes. Are you goin' to knit her some
more, Bokay?"
"About half that ain't straight," Baldy commented, with mildness.
"The half that was tore off yer pants? Well, never mind, Baldy;
Lin will get left too, same as all of yu'."
"Is there many?" inquired the Virginian. He was still stretched
on his back, looking up at the sky.
"I don't know how many she's been used to where she was raised,"
Wiggin answered. "A kid stage-driver come from Point of Rocks one
day and went back the next. Then the foreman of the 76 outfit,
The Virginian |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: And his ship was the means by which he maintained
his growing family.
She was a heavy, strong, blunt-bowed affair,
awakening the ideas of primitive solidity, like the
wooden plough of our forefathers. And there were,
about her, other suggestions of a rustic and homely
nature. The extraordinary timber projections
which I have seen in no other vessel made her square
stern resemble the tail end of a miller's waggon.
But the four stern ports of her cabin, glazed with
six little greenish panes each, and framed in wooden
Falk |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: like a hand with many fingers to gather
"The filtered tribute of the rough woodland,"
delivers its generous offering to the main current.
The names of the chief tributaries of the Ristigouche are curious.
There is the headstrong Metapedia, and the crooked Upsalquitch, and
the Patapedia, and the Quatawamkedgwick. These are words at which
the tongue balks at first, but you soon grow used to them and learn
to take anything of five syllables with a rush, as a hunter takes a
five-barred gate, trusting to fortune that you will come down with
the accent in the right place.
For six or seven miles above Metapedia the river has a breadth of
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