| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: her uncle, quite real, sitting opposite. But there was no Joe, no
Edward; and they had said nothing. They had only bowed once, and
kept at a distance. Dear heart! what a long way it was to the
Black Lion!
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The Black Lion was so far off, and occupied such a length of time
in the getting at, that notwithstanding the strong presumptive
evidence she had about her of the late events being real and of
actual occurrence, Dolly could not divest herself of the belief
that she must be in a dream which was lasting all night. Nor was
she quite certain that she saw and heard with her own proper
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: continued, abruptly, after a slight pause, "in after years there
will be other women--"
A stifled cry in the boat interrupted her, and the paddle rattled
in the canoe as it slipped from Nina's hands, which she put out
in a protesting gesture. Mrs. Almayer fell on her knees on the
bank and leaned over the gunwale so as to bring her own face
close to her daughter's.
"There will be other women," she repeated firmly; "I tell you
that, because you are half white, and may forget that he is a
great chief, and that such things must be. Hide your anger, and
do not let him see on your face the pain that will eat your
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: played with that weapon of their new Lord, the sway of a
mysterious will over the human soul, which had become enslaved.
They called it mesmerism, hypnotism, suggestion, I know not what?
I have seen them diverting themselves like rash children with
this horrible power! Woe to us! Woe to man! He has come,
the--the--what does He call himself--the--I fancy that he is
shouting out his name to me and I do not hear him--the--yes--He
is shouting it out--I am listening--I
cannot--repeat--it--Horla--I have heard--the Horla--it is He--the
Horla--He has come!--
Ah! the vulture has eaten the pigeon, the wolf has eaten the
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