| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: became unsettled. He listened for the yard-gate. At a quarter-past
seven came a low knock, and Miriam entered.
"All alone?" she said.
"Yes."
As if at home, she took off her tam-o'-shanter and her long coat,
hanging them up. It gave him a thrill. This might be their own house,
his and hers. Then she came back and peered over his work.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Still design, for decorating stuffs, and for embroidery."
She bent short-sightedly over the drawings.
It irritated him that she peered so into everything that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: thought it was finished. Her eyes were liquid, her flesh trembled, her
tresses waved--she breathed! And yet, though I have grasped the secret
of rendering on a flat canvas the relief and roundness of nature, this
morning at dawn I saw many errors. Ah! to attain that glorious result,
I have studied to their depths the masters of color. I have analyzed
and lifted, layer by layer, the colors of Titian, king of light. Like
him, great sovereign of art, I have sketched my figure in light clear
tones of supple yet solid color; for shadow is but an accident,--
remember that, young man. Then I worked backward, as it were; and by
means of half-tints, and glazings whose transparency I kept
diminishing little by little, I was able to cast strong shadows
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: how quickly the town was rebuilding and anyone who could establish
a lumber business now, when there was so little competition, would
have a gold mine.
There came to her, from the recesses of her mind, words Rhett had
spoken in the early years of the war about the money he made in the
blockade. She had not taken the trouble to understand them then,
but now they seemed perfectly clear and she wondered if it had been
only her youth or plain stupidity which had kept her from
appreciating them.
"There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a
civilization as in the upbuilding of one."
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