| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Still she looked at him and her tears increased.
Then, abruptly, she buried her face on the cushioned arm
of the sofa beside her chair, and broke into noiseless sobs.
"I am weak--I am weak," he heard her say.
"All the more reason why you should give yourself up to me,"
he answered. "Why are you troubled? There is nothing but happiness.
Is that so hard to believe?"
"To you everything seems so simple," she said, raising her head.
"But things are not so. I like you extremely. I liked you six
months ago, and now I am sure of it, as you say you are sure.
But it is not easy, simply for that, to decide to marry you.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: little heightened colour - not much - she remarked, "I forgot you
were there," and laughed. To be sure, to be sure. When Jasper was
in sight she was not likely to remember that anybody else in the
world was there. In my concern at this mad trick I couldn't help
appealing to her sympathetic common sense.
"Isn't he a fool?" I said with feeling.
"Perfect idiot," she agreed warmly, looking at me straight with her
wide-open, earnest eyes and the dimple of a smile on her cheek.
"And that," I pointed out to her, "just to save twenty minutes or
so in meeting you."
We heard the anchor go down, and then she became very resolute and
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: woods, the others following. The noise and confusion of the many
voices shouting and calling, the trample and stamp of horses,
grew fainter and fainter, until at last all was once more hushed
and still, and only the fagot-maker was left behind, still
staring like one dumb and bereft of wits.
But so soon as he was quite sure that all were really gone, he
clambered down as quickly as might be. He waited for a while to
make doubly sure that no one was left behind, and then he walked
straight up to the rock, just as he had seen the old man do. He
plucked a switch from the bush, just as he had seen the old man
pluck one, and struck the stone, just as the old man had struck
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