| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: assumed name I have wormed myself into its service for revenge; and
as there is a heaven above us, I will have its heart's blood!"
An Optimist
Two Frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered
circumstances.
"This is pretty hard luck," said one.
"Don't jump to conclusions," the other said; "we are out of the wet
and provided with board and lodging."
"With lodging, certainly," said the First Frog; "but I don't see
the board."
"You are a croaker," the other explained. "We are ourselves the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: I shall go mad, I know I shall. Do not laugh, do not talk to me of
the fickleness of women. If we are inconstant, /you/ are strangely
capricious. You take away the hours of love that made a poor
creature's happiness for ten whole days; the hours on which she
drew to be charming and kind to all that came to see her! After
all, you were the source of my kindness to /him/; you do not know
what pain you give him. I wonder what I must do to keep you, or
simply to keep the right to be yours sometimes. . . . When I think
that you never would come here to me! . . . With what delicious
emotion I would wait upon you!--There are other women more favored
than I. There are women to whom you say, 'I love you.' To me you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: reproach I had of him.
"What are we to do now?" I asked.
"We'll have to play at being hares," said he. "Do ye see yon
mountain?" pointing to one on the north-eastern sky.
"Ay," said I.
"Well, then," says he, "let us strike for that. Its name is Ben
Alder. it is a wild, desert mountain full of hills and hollows,
and if we can win to it before the morn, we may do yet."
"But, Alan," cried I, "that will take us across the very coming
of the soldiers!"
"I ken that fine," said he; "but if we are driven back on Appin,
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