| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: get help from Cuivaca. Call up there now and see if you can
get Villa to send help--he ought to protect you from Pesita. I
understand that there is no love lost between the two."
Anthony Harding went at once to the telephone and rang
for the central at Cuivaca.
"Tell it to the operator," shouted Bridge who stood peering
through an opening in the barricade before a front window;
"they are coming now, and the chances are that the first thing
they'll do is cut the telephone wires."
The Easterner poured his story and appeal for help into the
ears of the girl at the other end of the line, and then for a few
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: "Go on!" shouted Semyon angrily and anxiously, tugging violently
at the reins and jerking his elbows as a bird does its wings. "Go
on!"
The horse went on into the water up to his belly and stopped, but
at once went on again with an effort, and Marya Vassilyevna was
aware of a keen chilliness in her feet.
"Go on!" she, too, shouted, getting up. "Go on!"
They got out on the bank.
"Nice mess it is, Lord have mercy upon us!" muttered Semyon,
setting straight the harness. "It's a perfect plague with this
Zemstvo. . . ."
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: gayly in their caps. More and more Allied aeiroplanes were in the
air. Sometimes, standing in the streets, Sara Lee saw one far overhead,
while balloon-shaped clouds of bursting shells hung far below it.
Once or twice in the early morning a German plane, flying so low that
one could easily see the black cross on each wing, reconnoitered the
village for wagon trains or troops. Always they found it empty.
Hope had almost fled now. In the afternoons Marie went to the ruined
church, and there knelt before the heap of marble and masonry that had
once been the altar, and prayed. And Sara Lee, who bad been brought up
a Protestant and had never before entered a Catholic church, took to
going there too. In some strange fashion the peace of former days
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