| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: She shook her head negatively. And he was appalled. He thought to
himself: Who can he be? Some miserable, silly youth without a
penny. Or perhaps some scoundrel? Without making any expressive
movement he wrung his loosely-clasped hands till the joints cracked.
He looked at her. She was pretty. Some low scoundrel who will cast
her off. Some plausible vagabond . . . "You couldn't wait--eh?"
Again she made a slight negative sign.
"Why not? What was the hurry?" She cast down her eyes. "It had to
be. Yes. It was sudden, but it had to be."
He leaned towards her, his mouth open, his eyes wild with virtuous
anger, but meeting the absolute candour of her raised glance threw
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: On that false sect, and their accursed king!
XCIV
"Too late the Moors, too late the Turkish king,
Gainst him should arm their troops and legions bold
For he beyond great Euphrates should bring,
Beyond the frozen tops of Taurus cold,
Beyond the land where is perpetual spring,
The cross, the eagle white, the lily of gold,
And by baptizing of the Ethiops brown
Of aged Nile reveal the springs unknown."
XCV
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: old," he said. "God preserve me from ridding you of him in any other
way."
"Forgive me," said the countess, blushing. "I am cruelly punished for
my sins. In a moment of despair I thought of killing him, and I feared
you might have the same desire. My sorrow is great that I have never
yet been able to confess that wicked thought; but I fear it would be
repeated to him and he would avenge it. I have shamed you," she
continued, distressed by his silence, "I deserve your blame."
And she broke the vial by flinging it on the floor violently.
"Do not come," she said, "my husband sleeps lightly; my duty is to
wait for the help of Heaven--that will I do!"
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