| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: "Tag--you're it!" she cried, and then dashed out the back door,
pursued by the laughing, screaming youngsters. Mandy followed
the children to the porch and stood looking after them, as the
mad, little band scurried about the back yard, darted in and out
amongst the trees, then up the side of the wooded hill, just
beyond the church.
The leaves once more were red and yellow on the trees, but to-day
the air was warm, and the children were wearing their summer
dresses. Polly's lithe, girlish figure looked almost tall by
comparison with the children about her. She wore a plain, simple
gown of white, which Mandy had helped her to make. It had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: moment he had written that his schooner's name "was painted in
showy gilt letters upon her garboard streak."
"What's the garboard streak, Condy?" Blix had asked, when he had
read the chapter to her.
"That's where they paint her name," he declared promptly. "I
don't know exactly, but I like the sound of it."
But the next day, when he was reading this same chapter to Captain
Jack, the latter suddenly interrupted with an exclamation as of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: For he hath thanne at alle tide
Of love such a maner pride,
Him thenkth his joie is endeles.
Now schrif thee, Sone, in godes pes,
And of thi love tell me plein
If that thi gloire hath be so vein. 2720
Mi fader, as touchinge of al
I may noght wel ne noght ne schal
Of veine gloire excuse me,
That I ne have for love be
The betre adresced and arraied;
Confessio Amantis |
