| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: Travers came to stand by his side he had never known what truth
and courage and wisdom were. With his eyes on her face and having
been told that in her eyes he appeared worthy of being both
commanded and entreated, he felt an instant of complete content,
a moment of, as it were, perfect emotional repose.
During the silence Mrs. Travers with a quick sideglance noticed
d'Alcacer as one sees a man in a mist, his mere dark shape
arrested close to the muslin screen. She had no doubt that he was
looking in their direction and that he could see them much more
plainly than she could see him. Mrs. Travers thought suddenly how
anxious he must be; and she remembered that he had begged her for
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: that part of one which bows down and worships it.
It was a mistake, she felt, ever to have asked d'Esquerre to come
at all. She had an angry feeling that she had done it rather in
self-defiance, to rid herself finally of that instinctive fear of
him which had always troubled and perplexed her. She knew that she
had reckoned with herself before he came; but she had been equal to
so much that she had never really doubted she would be equal to
this. She had come to believe, indeed, almost arrogantly in her
own malleability and endurance; she had done so much with herself
that she had come to think that there was nothing which she could
not do; like swimmers, overbold, who reckon upon their strength and
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: on with Valenciennes or bombazine, or something of that sort.
It gives it such an air--and attracts so much noise.
Pause.
It's forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-forth to ninety-seventh inclusive.
I think we ought all to read it often.
Pause.
Perhaps so; I generally use a hair pin.
Pause.
What did you say? (ASIDE.) Children, do be quiet!
Pause
OH! B FLAT! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!
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