| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: intimidate her, saying at the same time "You had better sit down
and eat your dinner, than look at the clouds."
"I have no appetite," replied Maria, who had previously
determined to speak mildly; "why then should I eat?"
"But, in spite of that, you must and shall eat something.
I have had many ladies under my care, who have resolved to starve
themselves; but, soon or late, they gave up their intent, as they
recovered their senses."
"Do you really think me mad?" asked Maria, meeting the
searching glance of her eye.
"Not just now. But what does that prove?--Only that you must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "What I did not know at all," he said, "was the way a man can be
pining for--for this--and never guess what is the matter with
him."
Then he had finished talking, still he lay extended and serene;
and she looked down at him and the wonderful change that had come
over him, like a sunrise. Was this dreamy boy the man of two days
ago? It seemed a distance immeasurable; yet it was two days only
since that wedding eve when she had shrunk from him as he stood
fierce and implacable. She could look back at that dark hour now,
although she could not speak of it. She had seen destruction like
sharp steel glittering in his eyes. Were these the same eyes? Was
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: understood - Kalawao, which you have never visited, about which you
have never so much as endeavoured to inform yourself; for, brief as
your letter is, you have found the means to stumble into that
confession. "LESS THAN ONE-HALF of the island," you say, "is
devoted to the lepers." Molokai - "MOLOKAI AHINA," the "grey,"
lofty, and most desolate island - along all its northern side
plunges a front of precipice into a sea of unusual profundity.
This range of cliff is, from east to west, the true end and
frontier of the island. Only in one spot there projects into the
ocean a certain triangular and rugged down, grassy, stony, windy,
and rising in the midst into a hill with a dead crater: the whole
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