| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: for the lady, that will do; so please have the luggage
taken to a bed-room." Which was immediately done,
and my wife went upstairs into the apartment.
After taking a little walk in the town, I returned,
and asked to see the "lady." On being conducted
to the little sitting-room, where she then was, I
entered without knocking, much to the surprise of
the whole house. The "lady" then rang the bell,
and ordered dinner for two. "Dinner for two,
mum!" exclaimed the waiter, as he backed out of
the door. "Yes, for two," said my wife. In a
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "There are," said the stranger. Then he pointed with his hand into the
darkness. "There in a cave were two women. When you blew the cave up they
were left unhurt behind a fallen rock. When you took away all the grain,
and burnt what you could not carry, there was one basketful that you knew
nothing of. The women stayed there, for one was eighty, and one near the
time of her giving birth; and they dared not set out to follow the remnant
of their tribe because you were in the plains below. Every day the old
woman doled grain from the basket; and at night they cooked it in their
cave where you could not see their smoke; and every day the old woman gave
the young one two handfuls and kept one for herself, saying, 'Because of
the child within you.' And when the child was born and the young woman
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Spring Torrents
"I Know the Stars"
Understanding
Nightfall
"It Is Not a Word"
"My Heart Is Heavy"
The Nights Remember
"Let It Be Forgotten"
The Dark Cup
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May Day
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