| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: engaged for taking the earliest opportunity of waiting on her,
after his return from London, whither he was obliged to go the
next day for a short time.
Mrs. Bennet was perfectly satisfied, and quitted the house under
the delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary
preparations of settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes,
she should undoubtedly see her daughter settled at Netherfield in
the course of three or four months. Of having another daughter
married to Mr. Collins, she thought with equal certainty, and
with considerable, though not equal, pleasure. Elizabeth was the
least dear to her of all her children; and though the man and the
Pride and Prejudice |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: yet none for his persecuted researches! We were frightfully overworked,
and the terrific mental and nervous strain made my friend brood
morbidly.
But West’s gentle enemies were no less harassed with
prostrating duties. College had all but closed, and every doctor
of the medical faculty was helping to fight the typhoid plague.
Dr. Halsey in particular had distinguished himself in sacrificing
service, applying his extreme skill with whole-hearted energy
to cases which many others shunned because of danger or apparent
hopelessness. Before a month was over the fearless dean had become
a popular hero, though he seemed unconscious of his fame as he
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: How coldly those impediments stand forth,
Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst
shame.
And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.
'Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,
Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine,
And supplicant their sighs to your extend,
To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine,
Lending soft audience to my sweet design,
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