| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: better to marry and keep your self-respect even if you never had
any more fun.
Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to
marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?
Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began
pushing back against the walls, the ladies carefully holding their
hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against
their bodies and show more pantalets than was proper. Scarlett
tiptoed above the crowd and saw the captain of the militia
mounting the orchestra platform. He shouted orders and half of
the Company fell into line. For a few minutes they went through a
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: to arrest--puzzled him.
Nayland Smith jerked his thumb toward the curtain.
At that, and before we could utter a word, Weymouth stepped
to the draped door. He was a man who drove straight at
his goal and saved reflections for subsequent leisure.
I think, moreover, that the atmosphere of the place
(stripped as it was it retained its heavy, voluptuous perfume)
had begun to get a hold upon him. He was anxious to shake it off;
to be up and doing.
He pulled the curtain aside and stepped into the room.
Smith and I perforce followed him. Just within the door
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: everybody believed that, and not only believed it, but
never even dreamed of doubting it, you will easily
understand that there was not a person in all Britain
that would not have walked fifty miles to get a sight of
me. Of course I was all the talk -- all other subjects
were dropped; even the king became suddenly a per-
son of minor interest and notoriety. Within twenty-
four hours the delegations began to arrive, and from
that time onward for a fortnight they kept coming.
The village was crowded, and all the countryside. I
had to go out a dozen times a day and show myself to
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
