| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: remembered that, as he went out from the house, his mother was
sitting barefoot on the floor in the entry, cleaning the samovar,
while his father lay on the stove coughing; as it was Good Friday
nothing had been cooked, and the student was terribly hungry. And
now, shrinking from the cold, he thought that just such a wind
had blown in the days of Rurik and in the time of Ivan the
Terrible and Peter, and in their time there had been just the
same desperate poverty and hunger, the same thatched roofs with
holes in them, ignorance, misery, the same desolation around, the
same darkness, the same feeling of oppression -- all these had
existed, did exist, and would exist, and the lapse of a thousand
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: "Oh!"
"It's a fine night, but we're rather empty. We may pitch a little."
And indeed at that moment the Picton Boat rose and rose and hung in the air
just long enough to give a shiver before she swung down again, and there
was the sound of heavy water slapping against her sides. Fenella
remembered she had left the swan-necked umbrella standing up on the little
couch. If it fell over, would it break? But grandma remembered too, at
the same time.
"I wonder if you'd mind, stewardess, laying down my umbrella," she
whispered.
"Not at all, Mrs. Crane." And the stewardess, coming back to grandma,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: And she devoted much private meditation to this question of effecting a visit
to the Tower of London.
Suddenly it seemed as if the problem might be solved; the two
ladies at Jones's Hotel received a visit from Willie Woodley.
Such was the social appellation of a young American who had sailed
from New York a few days after their own departure, and who,
having the privilege of intimacy with them in that city, had lost
no time, on his arrival in London, in coming to pay them his respects.
He had, in fact, gone to see them directly after going to see his tailor,
than which there can be no greater exhibition of promptitude on the part
of a young American who has just alighted at the Charing Cross Hotel.
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