| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: backward step.
"Sit down, Mr. Sullivan," McKnight beamed cordially. "Have a cigar?
I beg your pardon, Alison, do you mind this smoke?"
"Not at all," she said composedly. Sullivan had had a second to
sound his bearings.
"No - no, thanks," he mumbled. "If you will be good enough to
explain - "
"But that's what you're to do," McKnight said cheerfully, pulling
up a chair. "You've got the most attentive audience you could ask.
These two gentlemen are detectives from Pittsburg, and we are all
curious to know the finer details of what happened on the car Ontario
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: taking her eyes from the floor.
"What need you getting drunk, then, and cutting up, Prue?"
said a spruce quadroon chambermaid, dangling, as she spoke, a pair
of coral ear-drops.
The woman looked at her with a sour surly glance.
"Maybe you'll come to it, one of these yer days. I'd be
glad to see you, I would; then you'll be glad of a drop, like me,
to forget your misery."
"Come, Prue," said Dinah, "let's look at your rusks. Here's
Missis will pay for them."
Miss Ophelia took out a couple of dozen.
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: of Callimachus with the reverent, simple and manful anthropomorphism of
the Homerist--and let him form his own judgment.
The other hint is this. If Callimachus, the founder of Alexandrian
literature, be such as he is, what are his pupils likely to become, at
least without some infusion of healthier blood, such as in the case of
his Roman imitators produced a new and not altogether ignoble school?
Of Lycophron, the fellow-grammarian and poet of Callimachus, we have
nothing left but the Cassandra, a long iambic poem, stuffed with
traditionary learning, and so obscure, that it obtained for him the
surname of [Greek text: skoteinos] the dark one. I have tried in vain
to read it: you, if you will, may do the same.
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