| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: accept. She forced it from her. This West with its rawness, its ruggedness,
she hated.
Nevertheless, the June days passed, growing dreamily swift, growing more
incomprehensibly full; and still she had not broached to Glenn the main
object of her visit--to take him back East. Yet a little while longer! She
hated his work and had not talked of that. Yet an honest consciousness told
her that as time flew by she feared more and more to tell him that he was
wasting his life there and that she could not bear it. Still was he wasting
it? Once in a while a timid and unfamiliar Carley Burch voiced a pregnant
query. Perhaps what held Carley back most was the happiness she achieved in
her walks and rides with Glenn. She lingered because of them. Every day she
The Call of the Canyon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: would retort, boldly. "Anyway, the Simon Legree thing has
gone out."
No one in the plant had ever dared to talk to him like that.
He would glare down at Fanny for a moment, like a mastiff on
a terrier. Fanny, seeing his face rage-red, would flash him
a cheerful and impudent smile. The anger, fading slowly,
gave way to another look, so that admiration and resentment
mingled for a moment.
"Lucky for you you're not a man."
"I wish I were."
"I'm glad you're not."
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever
toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they
praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was
laid.
EZR 3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers,
who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation
of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and
many shouted aloud for joy:
EZR 3:13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of
joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted
with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
King James Bible |
