| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: Temple gardens and the Embankment. It was
a pleasant kind of loneliness. To a man who
was so little given to reflection, whose dreams
always took the form of definite ideas,
reaching into the future, there was a seductive
excitement in renewing old experiences in
imagination. He started out upon these walks
half guiltily, with a curious longing and
expectancy which were wholly gratified by
solitude. Solitude, but not solitariness;
for he walked shoulder to shoulder with a
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: devices of a depraved woman, who wished to use him to the best
advantage. He seemed to remember having seen signs of obduracy at
his last interview with her. All this flashed through his mind as
he instinctively put on his hat and left the hospital.
"What am I to do now? Am I still bound to her? Has this action of
hers not set me free?" And as he put these questions to himself
he knew at once that if he considered himself free, and threw her
up, he would be punishing himself, and not her, which was what he
wished to do, and he was seized with fear.
"No, what has happened cannot alter--it can only strengthen my
resolve. Let her do what flows from the state her mind is in. If
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: So sweet Amyntas, and none else, to me."
DAMOETAS
"My Muse, although she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!"
MENALCAS
"Pollio himself too doth new verses make:
Feed ye a bull now ripe to butt with horn,
And scatter with his hooves the flying sand."
DAMOETAS
"Who loves thee, Pollio, may he thither come
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