| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: tormented her more than the news that her sentence was confirmed.
CHAPTER XXX.
THE ASTONISHING INSTITUTION CALLED CRIMINAL LAW.
Maslova might be sent off with the first gang of prisoners,
therefore Nekhludoff got ready for his departure. But there was
so much to be done that he felt that he could not finish it,
however much time he might have. It was quite different now from
what it had been. Formerly he used to be obliged to look for an
occupation, the interest of which always centred in one person,
i.e., Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhludoff, and yet, though every
interest of his life was thus centred, all these occupations were
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of the West by O. Henry: queens had hearts as simple ranchmen's wives have, and as though she
would gladly make kings of prince-consorts, should they ride back
again from over the hills and far away.
In the morning the capable, revolvered youth and his /vaqueros/ set
forth, driving the bunch of Sussex cattle across the prairies to the
Rancho Seco. Ninety miles it was; a six days' journey, grazing and
watering the animals on the way.
The beasts arrived at Rancho Seco one evening at dusk; and were
received and counted by the foreman of the ranch.
The next morning at eight o'clock a horseman loped out of the brush to
the Nopalito ranch-house. He dismounted stiffly, and strode, with
Heart of the West |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Solstitial summer's heat. To the blanc moon
Her office they prescribed; to the other five
Their planetary motions, and aspects,
In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite,
Of noxious efficacy, and when to join
In synod unbenign; and taught the fixed
Their influence malignant when to shower,
Which of them rising with the sun, or falling,
Should prove tempestuous: To the winds they set
Their corners, when with bluster to confound
Sea, air, and shore; the thunder when to roll
Paradise Lost |
