| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when
another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her,
stepped between her and the flickering light of the lamp post.
She looked round, and the same instant recognized Vronsky's face.
Putting his hand to the peak of his cap, he bowed to her and
asked, Was there anything she wanted? Could he be of any service
to her? She gazed rather a long while at thim without answering,
and, in spite of the shadow in which he was standing, she saw, or
fancied she saw, both the expression of his face and his eyes.
It was again that expression of reverential ecstasy which had so
worked upon her theday before. More than once she had told
Anna Karenina |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: First walked a gingerbread man neatly formed and baked to a lovely
brown tint. He wore a silk hat and carried a candy cane prettily
striped with red and yellow. His shirt-front and cuffs were white
frosting, and the buttons on his coat were licorice drops.
Behind the gingerbread man came a child with flaxen hair and merry
blue eyes, dressed in white pajamas, with sandals on the soles of its
pretty bare feet. The child looked around smiling and thrust its
hands into the pockets of the pajamas. Close after it came a big
rubber bear, walking erect on its hind feet. The bear had twinkling
black eyes, and its body looked as if it had been pumped full of air.
Following these curious visitors were two tall, thin men and two
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: scowl on his face the demureness of hers and Anscombe's evident
amusement assured me of this. She was asking about her father;
he answered that he also seemed quite well.
"Then why did you write to tell me that I ought to come as he was
not at all well?" she inquired, with a lifting of her delicate
eyebrows.
The question was never answered, for at that moment Marnham
himself appeared.
"Oh! father," she said, and rushed into his arms, while he kissed
her tenderly on both cheeks.
So I was not mistaken, thought I to myself, she does really love
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