| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: about the "poor little dog," and on this he built his plan.
"Oh, well," he said carelessly, "almost everybody is nervous and
impatient now-a-days. I suppose Mrs. Bernauer felt uneasy because
she couldn't find the paper right away. There's nothing particularly
interesting or noticeable about that. Anyway, I've been occupying
myself much more these last years with sick animals rather than with
sick people. I've had some very successful cures there."
"No, really, have you? Then you could do us a great favour,"
exclaimed Franz in apparent eagerness. Muller's heart rejoiced. He
had apparently hit it right this time. He knew that in a house like
that "a poor dog" could only mean a "sick dog." But his voice was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the things to the station with a servant and Taras, Theodosia's
husband, who was going with them. Then he took the first
isvostchik he could find and drove off to the prison.
The prisoners' train started two hours before the train by which
he was going, so Nekhludoff paid his bill in the lodgings and
left for good.
It was July, and the weather was unbearably hot. From the stones,
the walls, the iron of the roofs, which the sultry night had not
cooled, the beat streamed into the motionless air. When at rare
intervals a slight breeze did arise, it brought but a whiff of
hot air filled with dust and smelling of oil paint.
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: XVI. Quot Libras in Duce?
XVII. Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
XVIII. A Recrudescence of Divine Right
XIX. The Battle-Field at Night
BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION
I. Number 24,601 becomes Number 9,430
II. In which the reader will peruse Two Verses which are
of the Devil's Composition possibly
III. The Ankle-Chain must have undergone a Certain Preparatory
Manipulation to be thus broken with a Blow from a Hammer
BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN
Les Miserables |
