| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: tea and vodka and white loaves, and must sleep from sunset to
dawn, and he goes to the doctor and pampers himself in all sorts
of ways. And why is it? He has grown weak; he has not the
strength to endure. If he wants to stay awake, his eyes close --
there is no doing anything."
"That's true," Meliton agreed; "the peasant is good for nothing
nowadays."
"It's no good hiding what is wrong; we get worse from year to
year. And if you take the gentry into consideration, they've
grown feebler even more than the peasants have. The gentleman
nowadays has mastered everything; he knows what he ought not to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: ill-judged light-heartedness. And I own this new discovery seemed
another point against her. What the devil was the good of a she-
ass if she could not carry a sleeping-bag and a few necessaries? I
saw the end of the fable rapidly approaching, when I should have to
carry Modestine. AEsop was the man to know the world! I assure
you I set out with heavy thoughts upon my short day's march.
It was not only heavy thoughts about Modestine that weighted me
upon the way; it was a leaden business altogether. For first, the
wind blew so rudely that I had to hold on the pack with one hand
from Cheylard to Luc; and second, my road lay through one of the
most beggarly countries in the world. It was like the worst of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: And in the glare of Hell;
My spirit drank a mingled tone,
Of seraph's song, and demon's moan;
What my soul bore, my soul alone
Within itself may tell!
Like a soft, air above a sea,
Tossed by the tempest's stir;
A thaw-wind, melting quietly
The snow-drift on some wintry lea;
No: what sweet thing resembles thee,
My thoughtful Comforter?
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