| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: London. They were the enemy, they had got hold of him.
"When I asked you if you were alone you pretended to be angry," she
remembered with a flash. "You said, ‘Do I tell lies?'"
"I WAS alone. Until-- It was an accident. On my walk I was
alone."
But he flinched before her accusing, her almost triumphant,
forefinger.
From the instant she heard of them she hated these South Harting
people unrestrainedly. She made no attempt to conceal it. Her
valiant bantam spirit caught at this quarrel as a refuge from the
rare and uncongenial ache of his secession. "And who are they?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the
leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist
against the coming aridity of summer. In the open spaces on the slope, beyond
the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like
so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of
trembling into flight again. Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone,
permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to
madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen
bells. Creamy white were these bells, shaped like lilies-of-the-valley, with
the sweetness of perfume that is of the springtime.
There was not a sigh of wind. The air was drowsy with its weight of perfume.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
Anabasis |
