| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: took it for granted. After the father and brother had been in
jail for some weeks the inflammation had subsided. (It is only
fair to say that the father had clamored for a specialist's
examination, which, he contended, would prove his innocence. Of
course he was not aware of her earlier experiences or he would
not have been so sure.) Then a competent gynecologist found that
coitus had never taken place. The hymen was intact. This was at
the time we studied the case. On the day of the trial, I with
two other physicians examined the girl. It was found that a
cotton swab about 3/8 of an inch in diameter could with
difficulty penetrate the vaginal orifice. There was not the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: in picking it to shreds industriously.
"Forget!" muttered Almayer, and that word started before him a
sequence of events, a detailed programme of things to do. He
knew perfectly well what was to be done now. First this, then
that, and then forgetfulness would come easy. Very easy. He had
a fixed idea that if he should not forget before he died he would
have to remember to all eternity. Certain things had to be taken
out of his life, stamped out of sight, destroyed, forgotten. For
a long time he stood in deep thought, lost in the alarming
possibilities of unconquerable memory, with the fear of death and
eternity before him. "Eternity!" he said aloud, and the sound of
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: "Four hundred roubles!" he exclaimed, hardly
believing his eyes. "What does it mean?"
The envelope also contained a badly-spelt letter,
addressed to Eugene Mihailovich. "It is said in
the Gospels," ran the letter, " do good for evil.
You have done me much harm; and in the coupon
case you made me wrong the peasants greatly.
But I have pity for you. Here are four hundred
notes. Take them, and remember your porter
Vassily."
"Very extraordinary!" said Eugene Mihailo-
The Forged Coupon |
