| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: At last she appeared from somewhere. "Mrs. Anthony has come on
board. Just gone into the cabin. Hadn't you better see if you can
be of any assistance?"
"Yes, sir."
And again he was alone with the situation he had created in the
hardihood and inexperience of his heart. He thought he had better
go on deck. In fact he ought to have been there before. At any
rate it would be the usual thing for him to be on deck. But a sound
of muttering and of faint thuds somewhere near by arrested his
attention. They proceeded from Mr. Smith's room, he perceived. It
was very extraordinary. "He's talking to himself," he thought. "He
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: and the proceedings never went further.
[Wednesday, 4th July]
Being now within twelve courses of being ready for
building the cornice, measures were taken for getting the
stones of it and the parapet-wall of the light-room brought
from Edinburgh, where, as before noticed, they had been
prepared and were in readiness for shipping. The honour of
conveying the upper part of the lighthouse, and of landing the
last stone of the building on the rock, was considered to
belong to Captain Pool of the SMEATON, who had been longer in
the service than the master of the PATRIOT. The SMEATON was,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: thought had occurred to him and so it belonged to her also. And he
told her of his intention to persuade Pierre to stay with them till
spring.
Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some remark, and
in her turn began thinking aloud. Her thoughts were about the
children.
"You can see the woman in her already," she said in French, pointing
to little Natasha. "You reproach us women with being illogical. Here
is our logic. I say: 'Papa wants to sleep!' but she says, 'No, he's
laughing.' And she was right," said Countess Mary with a happy smile.
"Yes, yes." And Nicholas, taking his little daughter in his strong
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