| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: that she divined his strange sense. But neither of them otherwise
expressed it, and her apparent understanding, with no protesting
shock, no easy derision, touched him more deeply than anything yet,
constituting for his stifled perversity, on the spot, an element
that was like breatheable air. What she said however was
unexpected. "Well, I'VE seen him."
"You -?"
"I've seen him in a dream."
"Oh a 'dream' - !" It let him down.
"But twice over," she continued. "I saw him as I see you now."
"You've dreamed the same dream - ?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: the twinkling of an eye. Some men awoke the commissaries of police,
others stayed by the body to guard it. The pursuit kept on in the
direction of the fugitive, who dragged it after him like the flame of
a conflagration.
Diard, as he ran, had all the sensations of a dream when he heard a
whole city howling, running, panting after him. Nevertheless, he kept
his ideas and his presence of mind. Presently he reached the wall of
the garden of his house. The place was perfectly silent, and he
thought he had foiled his pursuers, though a distant murmur of the
tumult came to his ears like the roaring of the sea. He dipped some
water from a brook and drank it. Then, observing a pile of stones on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: When father spoke in such a way it usually meant the defeat of my schemes.
I grew cold all over.
"Yes, father, I'd like all that-- But I mean business. I want to be a
forest ranger. Let me go to Arizona this summer. And in the fall I'd--I'd
like to go to a school of forestry."
There! the truth was out, and my feelings were divided between relief and
fear. Before father could reply I launched into a set speech upon forestry,
and talked till I was out of breath.
"There's something in what you say," replied my father. "You've been
reading up on the subject?"
"Everything I could get, and I've been trying to apply my knowledge in the
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