| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: has sent for you!"
The voice was that of the joiner's wife on the other side of the
partition. Akulina and the woman had quarrelled that morning
about some trifling thing done by one of Polikey's children, and
it afforded her the greatest pleasure to learn that her neighbor
had been summoned into the presence of his noble mistress. She
looked upon such a circumstance as a bad omen. She continued
talking to herself and said: "Perhaps she wants to send him to
the town to make some purchases for her household. I did not
suppose she would select such a faithful man as you are to
perform such a service for her. If it should prove that she DOES
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The world is of a sudden on its head,
And all are spilled -- unless you cling alone
With Washington. Ask Adams about that.
HAMILTON
We'll not ask Adams about anything.
We fish for lizards when we choose to ask
For what we know already is not coming,
And we must eat the answer. Where's the use
Of asking when this man says everything,
With all his tongues of silence?
BURR
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: I wanted you to have your fun out first; now we can be serious.'
And then with a glowing heat of pleasure, he laid his plans before
me, revelling in the details, revelling in hope. It was as he
wrote about the joy of electrical experiment. 'What shall I
compare them to? A new song? - a Greek play?' Delight attended
the exercise of all his powers; delight painted the future. Of
these ideal visions, some (as I have said) failed of their
fruition. And the illusion was characteristic. Fleeming believed
we had only to make a virtue cheap and easy, and then all would
practise it; that for an end unquestionably good, men would not
grudge a little trouble and a little money, though they might
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