| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: no peoples to watch us if so it may."
Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced
to see that the exigency of affairs was helping her to
forget for a time the terrible experience of the night.
She was very, very pale, almost ghastly, and so thin that her lips
were drawn away, showing her teeth in somewhat of prominence.
I did not mention this last, lest it should give her needless pain,
but it made my blood run cold in my veins to think of what had
occurred with poor Lucy when the Count had sucked her blood.
As yet there was no sign of the teeth growing sharper,
but the time as yet was short, and there was time for fear.
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: of them was upon the whole country; and the men were surprised, and
so frightened, that I believe a hundred of them would have fled at
the sight of but five of our men. Nor in all this terrible action
was there a man that made any considerable defence: they were so
surprised between the terror of the fire and the sudden attack of
our men in the dark, that they knew not which way to turn
themselves; for if they fled one way they were met by one party, if
back again by another, so that they were everywhere knocked down;
nor did any of our men receive the least hurt, except one that
sprained his foot, and another that had one of his hands burned.
CHAPTER X - HE IS LEFT ON SHORE
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: delightful as it is distressing."
A foreign minister smiled as, by the light of memory, he felt the
truth of this remark.
"Besides," de Marsay went on, "I said to myself, why miss a happy
hour? Was it not better to go, even though feverish? And, then, if she
learns that I am ill, I believe her capable of hurrying here and
compromising herself. I made an effort; I wrote a second letter, and
carried it myself, for my confidential servant was now gone. The river
lay between us. I had to cross Paris; but at last, within a suitable
distance of her house, I caught sight of a messenger; I charged him to
have the note sent up to her at once, and I had the happy idea of
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