| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: in it again.
Chapter 1.IX.
A strange company assembled in the Burnells' washhouse after tea. Round
the table there sat a bull, a rooster, a donkey that kept forgetting it was
a donkey, a sheep and a bee. The washhouse was the perfect place for such
a meeting because they could make as much noise as they liked, and nobody
ever interrupted. It was a small tin shed standing apart from the
bungalow. Against the wall there was a deep trough and in the corner a
copper with a basket of clothes-pegs on top of it. The little window, spun
over with cobwebs, had a piece of candle and a mouse-trap on the dusty
sill. There were clotheslines criss-crossed overhead and, hanging from a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: for the night, for the Indians rarely attacked the settlements after dark.
Capt. Boggs came over and he and Col. Zane conversed in low tones.
"The first thing in the morning I want you to ride over to Short Creek for
reinforcements. I'll send the Major also and by a different route. I expect to
hear tonight from Wetzel. Twelve times has he crossed that threshold with the
information which made an Indian surprise impossible. And I feel sure he will
come again."
"What was that?" said Betty, who was sitting on the doorstep.
"Sh-h!" whispered Col. Zane, holding up his finger.
The night was warm and still. In the perfect quiet which followed the
Colonel's whispered exclamation the listeners heard the beating of their
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: as firm and as resolute as she was beautiful and interesting.
He hastened to the cottage of Louisa, who received him in her usual
mode of pleasantness, and informed him that Ambulinia had just that
moment left. "Is it possible?" said Elfonzo. "Oh, murdered hours!
Why did she not remain and be the guardian of my secrets?
But hasten and tell me how she has stood this trying scene,
and what are her future determinations." "You know," said Louisa,
"Major Elfonzo, that you have Ambulinia's first love, which is
of no small consequence. She came here about twilight, and shed
many precious tears in consequence of her own fate with yours.
We walked silently in yon little valley you see, where we spent
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