| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: and once again spend some time playing with the child.
However, it wasn't many weeks before the old woodcutter and his wife
were forced to admit that they were simply too old and too poor to
raise the child as it should be, and that they ought in all fairness
to the babe to find a better home for it. "For," as the old woman
explained, "I love the child too much to keep him."
So the woodcutter took the child to a house where several holy women
lived and, after explaining the brief history of the child as he
knew it, asked for their help. "The wife and I don't have the
learning behind us, the money with us, or the years ahead of us to
raise this child as it ought to be raised," said the woodcutter to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: that he could not wake her, we went to her room to see for ourselves.
She was breathing naturally and looked so well and peaceful that we
agreed that the sleep was better for her than anything else.
Poor girl, she has so much to forget that it is no wonder that sleep,
if it brings oblivion to her, does her good.
Later.--Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep
of some hours she woke up, she seemed brighter and better than she
had been for days. At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.
Wherever he may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to
his destination. To his doom, I trust!
26 October.--Another day and no tidings of the Czarina Catherine.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
Anabasis |
