| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: distant figure of a constable, returned to the charge with
more of spirit and directness.
'I thought,' said he, in the tone of conversation, 'that I
had indistinctly perceived you leaving a villa in the company
of two gentlemen.'
'Oh!' she said, 'you need not fear to wound me by the truth.
You saw me flee from a common lodging-house, and my
companions were not gentlemen. In such a case, the best of
compliments is to be frank.'
'I thought,' resumed Challoner, encouraged as much as he was
surprised by the spirit of her reply, 'to have perceived,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: die in the place of O-Tsuyu; and this great favor has been granted me.
Therefore you must not grieve about my death... But I have one request to
make. I promised Fudo-Sama that I would have a cherry-tree planted in the
garden of Saihoji, for a thank-offering and a commemoration. Now I shall
not be able myself to plant the tree there: so I must beg that you will
fulfill that vow for me... Good-bye, dear friends; and remember that I was
happy to die for O-Tsuyu's sake."
After the funeral of O-Sode, a young cherry-tree,-- the finest that could
be found,-- was planted in the garden of Saihoji by the parents of O-Tsuyu.
The tree grew and flourished; and on the sixteenth day of the second month
of the following year,-- the anniversary of O-Sode's death,-- it blossomed
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was doing--something crooked, and he wondered that so
pusillanimous a thing as Divine could have a hand in it. It
almost changed his estimate of the passenger of the Halfmoon.
The meeting broke up so suddenly that Billy had to drop
to his knees to escape the observation of those within the
cabin. As it was, Theriere, who had started to leave a second
before the others, caught a fleeting glimpse of a face that
quickly had been withdrawn from the cabin skylight as
though its owner were fearful of detection.
Without a word to his companions the Frenchman left the
cabin, but once outside he bounded up the companionway to
The Mucker |
