| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: outlines had taken wan livid hues, all the more ghastly by force
of contrast with the white pillows on which he lay. The muscles
about the toothless mouth had contracted with pain and drawn
apart the lips; the moans that issued between them with appalling
energy found an accompaniment in the howling of the storm
without.
In spite of every sign of coming dissolution, the most striking
thing about the dying face was its incredible power. It was no
ordinary spirit that wrestled there with Death. The eyes glared
with strange fixity of gaze from the cavernous sockets hollowed
by disease. It seemed as if Bartolommeo sought to kill some enemy
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: With softe speche and with lesinge,
Forth with his fals pitous lokynge, 680
He wolde make a womman wene
To gon upon the faire grene,
Whan that sche falleth in the Mir.
For if he may have his desir,
How so falle of the remenant,
He halt no word of covenant;
Bot er the time that he spede,
Ther is no sleihte at thilke nede,
Which eny loves faitour mai,
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: waited a little, wondering if he had only gone to put on something
extraordinary; this would account for his delay as well as
contribute further to Overt's impression of his tendency to do the
approved superficial thing. But he didn't arrive - he must have
been putting on something more extraordinary than was probable.
Our hero gave him up, feeling a little injured, a little wounded,
at this loss of twenty coveted words. He wasn't angry, but he
puffed his cigarette sighingly, with the sense of something rare
possibly missed. He wandered away with his regret and moved slowly
round the room, looking at the old prints on the walls. In this
attitude he presently felt a hand on his shoulder and a friendly
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