| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can
easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories,
grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
I know nothing of the picturesque."
"I am afraid it is but too true," said Marianne;
"but why should you boast of it?"
"I suspect," said Elinor, "that to avoid one kind
of affectation, Edward here falls into another. Because he
believes many people pretend to more admiration of the beauties
of nature than they really feel, and is disgusted with
such pretensions, he affects greater indifference and less
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: anything!"
I looked down at the gash on my leg, which was bleeding
somewhat freely.
"It's nothing," I declared; "a mere tear in the skin. But
your ankle! I thought it was sprained?"
She had reached my side and bent over to examine my wound; but
I raised her in my arms and held her before me.
"That," I said, "is nothing. Believe me, it isn't even
painful. I shall bandage it myself; Harry will take my place here.
But your foot?"
"That, too, is nothing," she answered with a half-smile. "I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: then the black calf in the shed, then Domna sewing at a shirt and
crying about something, and then again the bull's head without
eyes, black smoke. . . .
Overhead someone gave a loud shout, several sailors ran by, they
seemed to be dragging something bulky over the deck, something
fell with a crash. Again they ran by. . . . Had something gone
wrong? Gusev raised his head, listened, and saw that the two
soldiers and the sailor were playing cards again; Pavel Ivanitch
was sitting up moving his lips. It was stifling, one hadn't
strength to breathe, one was thirsty, the water was warm,
disgusting. The ship heaved as much as ever.
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