| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:
And yet thou left'st me more than I did crave;
For why I craved nothing of thee still:
O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,
Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me.
XI.
Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him:
She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: continuous flat wall of the tall houses that seemed to be one
immense abandoned building with innumerable windows shuttered
closely. Only here and there a small dingy cafe for sailors cast
a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing
by, one heard a deep murmur of voices inside--nothing more. How
quiet everything was at the end of the quays on the last night on
which I went out for a service cruise as a guest of the
Marseilles pilots! Not a footstep, except my own, not a sigh,
not a whispering echo of the usual revelry going on in the narrow
unspeakable lanes of the Old Town reached my ear--and suddenly,
with a terrific jingling rattle of iron and glass, the omnibus of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: sometimes to call me to her and turn my face up in the light that
streamed out through the shutters and kiss me, and then I always
knew she was thinking of Adriance."
"Poor little chap," said Katharine, and her tone was a
trifle huskier than usual. "How fond people have always been of
Adriance! Now tell me the latest news of him. I haven't heard,
except through the press, for a year or more. He was in Algeria
then, in the valley of the Chelif, riding horseback night and day
in an Arabian costume, and in his usual enthusiastic fashion he
had quite made up his mind to adopt the Mohammedan faith
and become as nearly an Arab as possible. How many countries and
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
