| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: At this moment the sound of women's voices was heard from the
corridor, and the inmates of the cell entered, with their prison
shoes, but no stockings on their feet. Each was carrying a roll,
some even two. Theodosia came at once up to Maslova.
"What's the matter; is anything wrong?" Theodosia asked, looking
lovingly at Maslova with her clear, blue eyes. "This is for our
tea," and she put the rolls on a shelf.
"Why, surely he has not changed his mind about marrying?" asked
Korableva.
"No, he has not, but I don't wish to," said Maslova, "and so I
told him."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: had much bad blood in him. Charles the Bold and Ferdinand of
Aragon were not grandparents to be proud of. Yet with all this he
inherited from his grandmother Isabella much that one can like,
and his face, as preserved by Titian, in spite of its frowning
brow and thick Burgundian lip, is rather prepossessing, while the
face of Philip is simply odious. In intellect he must probably be
called great, though his policy often betrayed the pettiness of
selfishness. If, in comparison with the mediaeval emperor whose
fame he envied, he may justly be called Charles the Little, he
may still, when compared to a more modern emulator of
Charlemagne,--the first of the Bonapartes,--be considered great
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: your fancy; - and be gone at once, and go sleep at Hookena with
Nahinu."
"Keawe," said Lopaka, "many a man would take this ill; above all,
when I am doing you a turn so friendly, as to keep my word and buy
the bottle; and for that matter, the night and the dark, and the
way by the tombs, must be all tenfold more dangerous to a man with
such a sin upon his conscience, and such a bottle under his arm.
But for my part, I am so extremely terrified myself, I have not the
heart to blame you. Here I go then; and I pray God you may be
happy in your house, and I fortunate with my schooner, and both get
to heaven in the end in spite of the devil and his bottle."
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