| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Thus pondered the veteran politician, until they reached
Bittlebrains House, where it had been previously settled they
were to dine and repose themselves, and prosecute their journey
in the afternoon.
They were received with an excess of hospitality; and the most
marked attention was offered to the Master of Ravenswood, in
particular, by their noble entertainers. The truth was, that
Lord Bittlebrains had obtained his peerage by a good deal of
plausibility, an art of building up a character for wisdom upon a
very trite style of commonplace eloquence, a steady observation
of the changes of the times, and the power of rendering certain
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: receive his embraces, although he offered her his land, Bridore in
Touraine. Of these gallants of Touraine, who gave an estate for one
tilt with love's lance, there are none left. This death made the fair
one sad, and since her confessor laid the blame of it upon her, she
determined for the future to accept all domains and secretly ease
their owner's amorous pains for the better saving of their souls from
perdition. 'Twas thus she commenced to build up that great fortune
which made her a person of consideration in the town. By this means
she prevented many gallant gentlemen from perishing, playing her game
so well, and inventing such fine stories, that his Majesty little
guessed how much she aided him in securing the happiness of his
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: It was certainly very much cooler at Newport, where our travelers
found themselves assigned to a couple of diminutive bedrooms
in a faraway angle of an immense hotel. They had gone ashore
in the early summer twilight and had very promptly put themselves
to bed; thanks to which circumstance and to their having,
during the previous hours, in their commodious cabin,
slept the sleep of youth and health, they began to feel,
toward eleven o'clock, very alert and inquisitive.
They looked out of their windows across a row of small
green fields, bordered with low stone walls of rude construction,
and saw a deep blue ocean lying beneath a deep blue sky,
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