| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: shaking his head with a decision which I had but seldom seen in him.
He said, "Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want."
Here he brightened up. "I am pretty indifferent about it at present.
Life is all right. I have all I want. You must get a new patient,
doctor, if you wish to study zoophagy!"
This puzzled me a little, so I drew him on. "Then you command life.
You are a god, I suppose?"
He smiled with an ineffably benign superiority. "Oh no!
Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity.
I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings.
If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give
and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
The Gift of the Magi |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: tired to want to make any noise at all.
One day it happened that an Only-Just-Lady came and said: ``Sister
Helen Vincula, I want to give you a ticket to carry you away to the
high mountain, and I want you to go to stay a month in my house on
the mountain, and I want you to carry this little sick girl with
you. And when you are there, Sister Helen Vincula, my bread-man
will bring you bread, and my milk-man will bring you milk, and my
market-man from the cove will bring you apples and eggs, and all the
rest of the good things that come up the mountain from the warm
caves.''
``For,'' the Only-Just-Lady said, ``I want this little sick girl to
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