| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: his plush cap in his hands, his bare feet tucked apologetically
under the seat.
After Mr. Shimerda discovered the Russians, he went to see them
almost every evening, and sometimes took Antonia with him.
She said they came from a part of Russia where the language
was not very different from Bohemian, and if I wanted
to go to their place, she could talk to them for me.
One afternoon, before the heavy frosts began, we rode up there
together on my pony.
The Russians had a neat log house built on a grassy slope,
with a windlass well beside the door. As we rode up
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: Three curates remained -- those of St. Merri, St. Sulpice
and St. Eustache. The others withdrew.
"You think, then, that you can help me more efficaciously
than your brothers?" said Gondy.
"We hope so," answered the curates.
"Let us hear. Monsieur de St. Merri, you begin."
"My lord, I have in my parish a man who might be of the
greatest use to you."
"Who and what is this man?"
"A shopkeeper in the Rue des Lombards, who has great
influence upon the commerce of his quarter."
Twenty Years After |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: there myself. But it's gone, that's the long and the
short of it, and you'll just have to change to a red
flann'l one till I can get time to make a new one.
And it 'll be the third I've made in two years. It just
keeps a body on the jump to keep you in shirts; and
whatever you do manage to DO with 'm all is more'n I
can make out. A body 'd think you WOULD learn to
take some sort of care of 'em at your time of life."
"I know it, Sally, and I do try all I can. But it
oughtn't to be altogether my fault, because, you know,
I don't see them nor have nothing to do with them
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
