| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Every additional day of unhappy confidence, on your side,
would have made the blow more dreadful."
"Engagement!" cried Marianne, "there has been
no engagement."
"No engagement!"
"No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him.
He has broken no faith with me."
"But he told you that he loved you."
"Yes--no--never absolutely. It was every day implied,
but never professedly declared. Sometimes I thought it
had been--but it never was."
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sanction, though I still believe that we are foolish to remain."
I, too, thought that they were foolish to remain, for I saw
from Woola's actions that the trail led through the room where the
two therns held guard. I had no reason to harbor any considerable
love for this race of self-deified demons, yet I would have passed
them by were it possible without molesting them.
It was worth trying anyway, for a fight might delay us considerably,
or even put an end entirely to my search--better men than I have
gone down before fighters of meaner ability than that possessed
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: old woman, whose name I do not know and who has so little to say.
She is kind to me otherwise, but I am afraid of her hard face and
of the smile with which she answers all my questions and entreaties.
"You are ill." These are the only words that she has ever said
to me, and she pointed to her forehead as she spoke them. She
thinks I am insane, therefore, or pretends to think so.
"What a hoarse voice she has. She must be ill herself, for she
coughs all night long. I can hear it through the wall - she sleeps
in the next room. But I am not ill, that is I am not ill in the
way she says. I have no fever now, my pulse is calm and regular.
I can remember everything, until I took that drink of tea in the
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