| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: guarded. I was sure that I was to be taken to the vivi-
section laboratory, and it required all my courage to
fortify myself against the terrors of so fearful a death. In
Pellucidar, where there is no time, death-agonies may
endure for eternities.
Accordingly, I had to steel myself against an endless
doom, which now stared me in the face!
CHAPTER V
SURPRISES
But at last the allotted moment arrived--the moment
for which I had been trying to prepare myself, for how
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: paper had proclaimed; in view of which I snatched a moment to nudge
him a hint that he might offer Mrs. Meldrum his hand. He returned
me a heavy head-shake, and I judged that marriage would henceforth
strike him very much as the traffic of the street may strike some
poor incurable at the window of an hospital. Circumstances arising
at this time led to my making an absence from England, and
circumstances already existing offered him a firm basis for similar
action. He had after all the usual resource of a Briton--he could
take to his boats, always drawn up in our background. He started
on a journey round the globe, and I was left with nothing but my
inference as to what might have happened. Later observation
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: "old enough to understand": certainly DID understand
now, in a tacit way that yet perpetually spoke to her. This
sense of his understanding was the deepest element in their
feeling for each other. There were so many things between
them that were never spoken of, or even indirectly alluded
to, yet that, even in their occasional discussions and
differences, formed the unadduced arguments making for final
agreement...
Musing on this, she continued to watch his approach; and her
heart began to beat a little faster at the thought of what
she had to say to him. But when he reached the gate she saw
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