| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: grew until he thought that he wished to change
lives with one of them. He would have liked to
have used a tremendous force, he said, throw off
himself and become a better. Swift pictures of
himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him--a
blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with
one knee forward and a broken blade high--a
blue, determined figure standing before a crimson
and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high
place before the eyes of all. He thought of the
magnificent pathos of his dead body.
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: going to do afterwards. Do you know you are going to be quite well
off?"
Benham looked up with a faint embarrassment. "My father said
something. He was rather vague. It wasn't his affair--that kind of
thing."
"You will be quite well off," she repeated, without any complicating
particulars. "You will be so well off that it will be possible for
you to do anything almost that you like in the world. Nothing will
tie you. Nothing. . . ."
"But--HOW well off?"
"You will have several thousands a year."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: As he rose to the surface, gasping for breath, he saw that he
had been a long time under water; he was perceptibly farther
downstream -- nearer to safety. The soldiers had almost
finished reloading; the metal ramrods flashed all at once in
the sunshine as they were drawn from the barrels,
turned in the air, and thrust into their sockets. The two
sentinels fired again, independently and ineffectually.
The hunted man saw all this over his shoulder; he was now
swimming vigorously with the current. His brain was as
energetic as his arms and legs; he thought with the rapidity
of lightning:
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
