| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: the proper functions of a handsome Italian at an evening party.
He sang very prettily half a dozen songs, though Mrs. Walker afterward
declared that she had been quite unable to find out who asked him.
It was apparently not Daisy who had given him his orders.
Daisy sat at a distance from the piano, and though she had publicly,
as it were, professed a high admiration for his singing, talked,
not inaudibly, while it was going on.
"It's a pity these rooms are so small; we can't dance," she said
to Winterbourne, as if she had seen him five minutes before.
"I am not sorry we can't dance," Winterbourne answered;
"I don't dance."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with a parting scowl at the two figures upon the Kincaid's
deck, turned away from the river.
Hastening through the dense jungle, his mind centred upon
his one fetich--revenge--the Russian forgot even his terror
of the savage world through which he moved.
Baffled and beaten at every turn of Fortune's wheel,
reacted upon time after time by his own malign plotting,
the principal victim of his own criminality, Paulvitch
was yet so blind as to imagine that his greatest happiness
lay in a continuation of the plottings and schemings which
had ever brought him and Rokoff to disaster, and the latter
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the necessity of being the first to speak.
"I thought," she said, with some effort, "you had already set
out."
"My companion awaits me," said Allan; "I go instantly."
Yet still he stood before her, and held her by the arm, with a
pressure which, though insufficient to give her pain, made her
sensible of his great personal strength, his hand closing on her
like the gripe of a manacle.
"Shall I take the harp?" she said, in a timid voice; "is--is
the shadow falling upon you?"
Instead of replying, he led her to the window of the apartment,
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