| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: and the goal of his pilgrimage was far. She had been buried in a
London suburb, a part then of Nature's breast, but which he had
seen lose one after another every feature of freshness. It was in
truth during the moments he stood there that his eyes beheld the
place least. They looked at another image, they opened to another
light. Was it a credible future? Was it an incredible past?
Whatever the answer it was an immense escape from the actual.
It's true that if there weren't other dates than this there were
other memories; and by the time George Stransom was fifty-five such
memories had greatly multiplied. There were other ghosts in his
life than the ghost of Mary Antrim. He had perhaps not had more
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: the cells for the night,' when I spoke to you just now about my
father you cried "Hush!" and turned away your head. Why did you do
so? Tell me why, in a word. You thought HE was dead. You are not
sorry that he is alive and has come back to us. Where is he?
Here?'
'Do not ask any one where he is, or speak about him,' she made
answer.
'Why not?' said Barnaby. 'Because he is a stern man, and talks
roughly? Well! I don't like him, or want to be with him by
myself; but why not speak about him?'
'Because I am sorry that he is alive; sorry that he has come back;
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: good luck to spend it in 7 weeks and a Day which was 6 Days sooner
than we had intended. As soon as we had thus happily disencumbered
ourselves from the weight of so much money, we began to think of
returning to our Mothers, but accidentally hearing that they were
both starved to Death, we gave over the design and determined to
engage ourselves to some strolling Company of Players, as we had
always a turn for the Stage. Accordingly we offered our services
to one and were accepted; our Company was indeed rather small, as
it consisted only of the Manager his wife and ourselves, but there
were fewer to pay and the only inconvenience attending it was the
Scarcity of Plays which for want of People to fill the Characters,
Love and Friendship |
