| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: and lie, and nag each other; we've formed a partnership for our
mutual advantage."
"I see; that's capital. But how can you be sure that, when Nick
wants a change, you'll consider it for his advantage to have
one?"
It was the point that had always secretly tormented Susy; she
often wondered if it equally tormented Nick.
"I hope I shall have enough common sense--" she began.
"Oh, of course: common sense is what you're both bound to base
your argument on, whichever way you argue."
This flash of insight disconcerted her, and she said, a little
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: In yonder chair Guatemoc your king was this day tortured by your
master Cortes, who swore to treat him with all honour. By his side
sat Teule, my husband and your friend; him Cortes gave over to has
private enemy, de Garcia, whom you name Sarceda. See how he has
left him. Nay, do not shudder, gentle lady; look now at his
wounds! Consider to what a pass we are driven when you find us
about to die thus like dogs, he, my husband, that he may not live
to see me handled as he has been, and I with him, because a
princess of the Otomie and of Montezuma's blood cannot submit to
such a shame while death has one door through which to creep. It
is but a single grain of your harvest, outcast and traitress, the
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: philosophy."
"For those others?"
"Stick to the subject, please. Did it turn out that my suspicions
were right?"
"Yes, perfectly right. Mongrel has heard them planning. They are
after BB's life, for running them out of Medicine Bow and taking
their stolen horses away from them."
"Well, they'll get him yet, for sure."
"Not if he keeps a sharp look-out."
"HE keep a sharp lookout! He never does; he despises them, and all
their kind. His life is always being threatened, and so it has
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