| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: We are very good friends now, and I've begun to take
lessons. I really couldn't help it, and it all came about in
such a droll way that I must tell you. To begin at the beginning,
Mrs. Kirke called to me one day as I passed Mr. Bhaer's room
where she was rummaging.
"Did you ever see such a den, my dear? Just come and
help me put these books to rights, for I've turned everything
upside down, trying to discover what he has done with the six
new handkerchiefs I gave him not long ago."
I went in, and while we worked I looked about me, for it
was `a den' to be sure. Books and papers everywhere, a broken
Little Women |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: interested all the matrons and maids of the Presidio
in his fate; when he recovered, his good dancing
and unselfishness gave him a permanent place in the
regard of the women, while his entire absence of
beauty, and his ability to hold his own in the mess
room, established his position with the men.
In due course word of his plight reached Boston,
and a ship was immediately despatched, not only to
bring the castaway home, but with the fine ward-
robe necessary to a young gentleman of his station.
But the same ship brought word of his father's
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: her white arms encircling him, down with her into the gaping
aperture.
Adam saw a medley of green and red lights blaze in a whirling
circle, and as it sank down into the well, a pair of blazing green
eyes became fixed, sank lower and lower with frightful rapidity, and
disappeared, throwing upward the green light which grew more and
more vivid every moment. As the light sank into the noisome depths,
there came a shriek which chilled Adam's blood--a prolonged agony of
pain and terror which seemed to have no end.
Adam Salton felt that he would never be able to free his mind from
the memory of those dreadful moments. The gloom which surrounded
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