| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: unwelcome knowledge that her husband was unfaithful to her, and her
beloved friend a party to it!
"I can't tell her," she thought miserably. "Never, not even if my
conscience kills me." She remembered irrelevantly Rhett's drunken
remark: "She can't conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves . . .
let that be your cross."
Yes, it would be her cross, until she died, to keep this torment
silent within her, to wear the hair shirt of shame, to feel it
chafing her at every tender look and gesture Melanie would make
throughout the years, to subdue forever the impulse to cry: "Don't
be so kind! Don't fight for me! I'm not worth it!"
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rewarded a few minutes before noon.
Every officer and man aboard was tense with nervous
excitement as we awaited the result of the reading. The
crew had known almost as soon as I that we were doomed to
cross thirty, and I am inclined to believe that every man
jack of them was tickled to death, for the spirits of
adventure and romance still live in the hearts of men of the
twenty-second century, even though there be little for them
to feed upon between thirty and one hundred seventy-five.
The men carried none of the burdens of responsibility. They
might cross thirty with impunity, and doubtless they would
Lost Continent |
