| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac: list many delicately scrupulous persons eager to buy landed
property beyond their means, who calculate with dry logic and in
cold blood the probable duration of the life of a father or of a
step-mother, some old man or woman of eighty or ninety, saying to
themselves, "I shall be sure to come in for it in three years'
time, and then----" A murderer is less loathsome to us than a
spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may
be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day,
in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every
moment of his life. Then what must it be to live when every
moment of your life is tainted with murder? And have we not just
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: They were packin' guns an' kept to themselves off to one side.
I didn't give them a second look till Jim said he reckoned
there was somethin' in the wind. Then, careless-like,
I began to peek at Rojas. They call Rojas the 'dandy rebel,' an'
he shore looked the part. It made me sick to see him in all that
lace an' glitter, knowin' him to be the cutthroat robber he is.
It's no oncommon sight to see excited Greasers. They're all crazy.
But this bandit was shore some agitated. He kept his men in a
tight bunch round a table. He talked an' waved his hands. He was
actually shakin'. His eyes had a wild glare. Now I figgered that
trouble was brewin', most likely for the little Casita garrison.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: The mother mourned, saying:
"Poor child, how will she bear it when she knows? I shall never see
her again in life. It is hard, so hard. She does not suspect?
You guard her from that?"
"She thinks you will soon be well."
"How good you are, and careful, dear Aunt Hester! None goes near
herr who could carry the infection?"
"It would be a crime."
"But you SEE her?"
"With a distance between--yes."
"That is so good. Others one could not trust; but you two guardian
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