| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: touched was cold and clammy with sweat. My breathing came more
and more rapidly, my body was shivering, all my inside was in
commotion; I had a sensation on my face and on my bald head as
though they were covered with spiders' webs.
What should I do? Call my family? No; it would be no use. I could
not imagine what my wife and Liza would do when they came in to
me.
I hid my head under the pillow, closed my eyes, and waited and
waited. . . . My spine was cold; it seemed to be drawn inwards,
and I felt as though death were coming upon me stealthily from
behind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: Bluff, renewing our resolution to find it.
Although that was twenty years ago, none of us have ever
climbed the Enchanted Bluff. Percy Pound is a stockbroker in
Kansas City and will go nowhere that his red touring car cannot
carry him. Otto Hassler went on the railroad and lost his foot
braking; after which he and Fritz succeeded their father as the
town tailors.
Arthur sat about the sleepy little town all his life--he died
before he was twenty-five. The last time I saw him, when I was
home on one of my college vacations, he was sitting in a steamer
chair under a cottonwood tree in the little yard behind one of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: lady has recourse to respectful summons, she exhibits a determination
too marked to allow of a father--of a mother," here he turned to the
baroness, "hoping or expecting that she will follow their wishes--
Paternal resistance being null--by reason of this fact--in the first
place--and also from its being nullified by law, it is customary--for
every sensible man--after making a final remonstrance to his child--
and before she proceeds to the respectful summons--to leave her at
liberty to--"
Monsieur Roguin stopped, perceiving that he might talk on for two
hours without obtaining any answer; he felt, moreover, a singular
emotion at the aspect of the man he was attempting to convert. An
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