| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: CHAPTER II - COCKERMOUTH AND KESWICK - A FRAGMENT - 1871
VERY much as a painter half closes his eyes so that some salient
unity may disengage itself from among the crowd of details, and what
he sees may thus form itself into a whole; very much on the same
principle, I may say, I allow a considerable lapse of time to
intervene between any of my little journeyings and the attempt to
chronicle them. I cannot describe a thing that is before me at the
moment, or that has been before me only a very little while before; I
must allow my recollections to get thoroughly strained free from all
chaff till nothing be except the pure gold; allow my memory to choose
out what is truly memorable by a process of natural selection; and I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: three men that I looked down upon, and one of whom, at least,
should have hung upon a gallows; that was for the present; and as
for the future, I could only see myself slaving alongside of
negroes in the tobacco fields. Mr. Riach, perhaps from caution,
would never suffer me to say another word about my story; the
captain, whom I tried to approach, rebuffed me like a dog and
would not hear a word; and as the days came and went, my heart
sank lower and lower, till I was even glad of the work which kept
me from thinking.
CHAPTER IX
THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD
Kidnapped |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: of you. Why do you not work steadily as I do, and get your food
regularly given to you?"
"I would have no objection," said the Wolf, "if I could only
get a place."
"I will easily arrange that for you," said the Dog; "come with
me to my master and you shall share my work."
So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On
the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of
the Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that
had come about.
"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place
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