| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: VI
Rain
The rain is falling all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
VII
Pirate Story
Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing,
Three of us abroad in the basket on the lea.
Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Clifford stared. "Why, Robert has taken her," he said.
"Exactly so. But you don't usually leave that to him."
"Oh," said Clifford, "I want to see those fellows start off.
They don't know how to drive."
"It is not, then, that you have quarreled with your cousin?"
Clifford reflected a moment, and then with a simplicity which had,
for the Baroness, a singularly baffling quality, "Oh, no;
we have made up!" he said.
She looked at him for some moments; but Clifford had begun to be afraid
of the Baroness's looks, and he endeavored, now, to shift himself out
of their range. "Why do you never come to see me any more?" she asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: must go behind and see the whole show, and not peep through holes
in the curtain. That is enough," he added, seeing that Eugene was
about to fly into a passion. "We can have a little talk whenever
you like."
There was a general feeling of gloom and constraint. Father
Goriot was so deeply dejected by the student's remark that he did
not notice the change in the disposition of his fellow-lodgers,
nor know that he had met with a champion capable of putting an
end to the persecution.
"Then, M. Goriot sitting there is the father of a countess," said
Mme. Vauquer in a low voice.
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