| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: simple submission to hard reality, to the stern logic of life.
This came home to him when he sat with her again in the room in
which her late aunt's conversation lingered like the tone of a
cracked piano. She tried to make him forget how much they were
estranged, but in the very presence of what they had given up it
was impossible not to be sorry for her. He had taken from her so
much more than she had taken from him. He argued with her again,
told her she could now have the altar to herself; but she only
shook her head with pleading sadness, begging him not to waste his
breath on the impossible, the extinct. Couldn't he see that in
relation to her private need the rites he had established were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other
need now hear your heart beat, as I did."
"No one need ever know, shall ever know," I said in a low voice.
She laid her hand on mine and said very gravely, "Ah, but they must!"
"Must! but why?" I asked.
"Because it is a part of the terrible story, a part of poor Lucy's
death and all that led to it. Because in the struggle which we
have before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we
must have all the knowledge and all the help which we can get.
I think that the cylinders which you gave me contained more than you
intended me to know. But I can see that there are in your record
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of trustfulness and love. Now she was willing to wait here until
they found Korak, or Korak found her. She did not give up that
thought--Korak, her Korak always was first.
Chapter 15
And out in the jungle, far away, Korak, covered with wounds,
stiff with clotted blood, burning with rage and sorrow, swung
back upon the trail of the great baboons. He had not found them
where he had last seen them, nor in any of their usual haunts;
but he sought them along the well-marked spoor they had left
behind them, and at last he overtook them. When first he came
upon them they were moving slowly but steadily southward in
The Son of Tarzan |
