| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: mentioned among women."
"Children and idiots are not interested in such things," I said.
"And we are much too frightened of being put in prison," said Irais.
"In prison?" echoed Minora.
"Don't you know," said Irais, turning to her "that if you talk
about such things here you run a great risk of being imprisoned?"
"But why?"
"But why? Because, though you yourself may have meant
nothing but what was innocent, your words may have suggested
something less innocent to the evil minds of your hearers;
and then the law steps in, and calls it dolus eventualis,
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: - and a necklace. I drew myself up slowly and stared at the
necklace.
It was one of the semi-barbaric affairs that women are wearing now,
a heavy pendant of gold chains and carved cameos, swung from a thin
neck chain of the same metal. The necklace was broken: in three
places the links were pulled apart and the cameos swung loose
and partly detached. But it was the supporting chain that held my
eye and fascinated with its sinister suggestion. Three inches of
it had been snapped off, and as well as I knew anything on earth, I
knew that the bit of chain that the amateur detective had found,
blood-stain and all, belonged just there.
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: broken neck.
In accomplishing this the ape was tearing away the entire
front of its breast, which was held in the vise-like grip of the
powerful jaws. Back and forth upon the floor they rolled,
neither one emitting a sound of fear or pain. Presently I saw
the great eyes of my beast bulging completely from their
sockets and blood flowing from its nostrils. That he was
weakening perceptibly was evident, but so also was the ape,
whose struggles were growing momentarily less.
Suddenly I came to myself and, with that strange instinct
which seems ever to prompt me to my duty, I seized the
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