| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: Mrs Durbeyfield, having quickly walked hitherward after
parting from Tess, opened the front door, crossed the
downstairs room, which was in deep gloom, and then
unfastened the stair-door like one whose fingers knew
the tricks of the latches well. Her ascent of the
crooked staircase was a slower process, and her face,
as it rose into the light above the last stair,
encountered the gaze of all the party assembled in the
bedroom.
"----Being a few private friends I've asked in to keep
up club-walking at my own expense," the landlady
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.
We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and
spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional
strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural
incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-
creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the
better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect
of nature, and the cheerful faces of children. Excellent friend!
how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind
until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had
Frankenstein |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: we rode on unknowing.
Then we came on a real indication. It did not
amount to much. Merely a dry river-bed; but the
farther bank, instead of being flat, cut into a low swell
of land. We skirted it. Another swell of land, like
the sullen after-heave of a storm, lay in our way.
Then we crossed a ravine. It was not much of a
ravine; in fact it was more like a slight gouge in the
flatness of the country. After that we began to see
oak-trees, scattered at rare intervals. So interested
were we in them that we did not notice rocks beginning
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