| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: might be as appropriately considered as evidence of
contentment and happiness, as the singing of a
slave; the songs of the one and of the other are
prompted by the same emotion.
CHAPTER III
Colonel Lloyd kept a large and finely cultivated
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: As she looked down into the sea, her lips were slightly parted.
The expression was one of childlike intentness, as if she were
watching for a fish to swim past over the clear red rocks.
Nevertheless her twenty-four years of life had given her a look
of reserve. Her hand, which lay on the ground, the fingers curling
slightly in, was well shaped and competent; the square-tipped
and nervous fingers were the fingers of a musician. With something
like anguish Hewet realised that, far from being unattractive,
her body was very attractive to him. She looked up suddenly.
Her eyes were full of eagerness and interest.
"You write novels?" she asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: clearing appeared hostile Indians, who took positions near the knoll where the
missionaries stood.
Heckewelder's faithful little band awaited him on the platform. The converted
Indians seated themselves as usual at the foot of the knoll. The other
savages crowded closely on both sides. They carried their weapons, and
maintained the same silence that had so singularly marked their mood of the
last twenty-four hours. No human skill could have divined their intention.
This coldness might be only habitual reserve, and it might be anything else.
Heckewelder approached at the same time that Simon Girty and his band of
renegades appeared. With the renegades were Pipe and Half King. These two came
slowly across the clearing, passed through the opening in the crowd, and
The Spirit of the Border |
