| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: stories we came to the question whether the uneducated Italians
were more superstitious than the uneducated English; the king
thought they were much less so. That struck me as a novel idea.
But then he thought that English rural people believe in witches
and fairies.
I have given enough of this talk to show the quality of this king
of the new dispensation. It was, you see, the sort of easy talk
one might hear from fine-minded people anywhere. When we had
done talking he came to the door of the study with me and shook
hands and went back to his desk--with that gesture of return to
work which is very familiar and sympathetic to a writer, and with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: a different set of customers. Who could this bold adventurer be?
And, of all places in the world, why had he chosen the House of
the Seven Gables as the scene of his commercial speculations?
We return to the elderly maiden. She at length withdrew her eyes
from the dark countenance of the Colonel's portrait, heaved a sigh,
--indeed, her breast was a very cave of Aolus that morning, --and
stept across the room on tiptoe, as is the customary gait of elderly
women. Passing through an intervening passage, she opened a door
that communicated with the shop, just now so elaborately described.
Owing to the projection of the upper story--and still more to the
thick shadow of the Pyncheon Elm, which stood almost directly in
House of Seven Gables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: to the bench. ``Speed, whew! look out for it.
He's been savin' up. Hit quick, an' you'll get
him.''
Ashwell bent over the plate and glowered at
Vane.
``Pitch! It's all off! An' you know it!'' he
hissed, using Mac's words.
Ashwell, too, was left-handed; he, too, was
extremely hard to pitch to; and if he had a weakness
that any of us ever discovered, it was a slow
curve and change of pace. But I doubted if Vane
The Redheaded Outfield |
