| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: "Miss Vinrace is dead," he repeated. It was only by stiffening all
the muscles round his mouth that he could prevent himself from bursting
into laughter, and forced himself to repeat for the third time,
"Miss Vinrace. . . . She's dead."
Let alone the difficulty of hearing the exact words, facts that
were outside her daily experience took some time to reach
Mrs. Paley's consciousness. A weight seemed to rest upon
her brain, impeding, though not damaging its action. She sat
vague-eyed for at least a minute before she realised what Arthur meant.
"Dead?" she said vaguely. "Miss Vinrace dead? Dear me . . . that's
very sad. But I don't at the moment remember which she was.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: the current season. I never saw a man look so
pleased as Morrisey when he folded that contract
and put it in his pocket. He bade me good-bye
and hurried off to catch a train, and he never
knew the Rube had pitched the great game on his
wedding day.
That afternoon before a crowd that had to be
roped off the diamond, I put the Rube against
the Bisons. How well he showed the baseball
knowledge he had assimilated! He changed his
style in that second game. He used a slow ball
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: degrees the brown figures emerged on to the plain to the number
of some hundreds, and we saw that they were both male and female.
The women were clothed in nothing except flowers and a little
girdle; the men were all armed with wooden weapons and also wore
a girdle but no flowers. The children, of whom there were many,
were quite naked.
Among these people we observed a tall person clothed in what
seemed to be a magnificent feather cloak, and, walking around and
about him, a number of grotesque forms adorned with hideous masks
and basket-like head-dresses that were surmounted by plumes.
"The king or chief and his priests or medicine-men! This is
When the World Shook |
