| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute
him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to
represent the jail window, "How do ye do?" My neighbors did
not this salute me, but first looked at me, and then at one
another, as if I had returned from a long journey. I was
put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a
shoe which was mender. When I was let out the next morning,
I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my
mended show, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient
to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour--for
the horse was soon tackled--was in the midst of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: She hesitated, as if waiting for him to urge her. "I
suppose I'd better not. I ought to go at once to my mother-
in-law--Owen's just been telling her," she said.
"Ah." Darrow hazarded a smile. "That accounts for my
having, on my way up, heard some one telephoning for Miss
Painter!"
At the allusion they laughed together, vaguely, and Anna
moved toward the door. He held it open for her and followed
her out.
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He left her at the door of Madame de Chantelle's sitting-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: where her own apartments had been, and the rest. It was very
strange to hear her quietly telling of buildings which had stood
and of things that had happened over two hundred and fifty
thousand years before, much as any modern lady might do of a
house that had been destroyed a month ago by an earthquake or a
Zeppelin bomb, while she described the details of a disaster
which now frightened her no more. I think it was then that for
the first time I really began to believe that in fact Yva had
lived all those aeons since and been as she still appeared.
We passed from the palace to the ruins of the temple, through
what, as she said, had been a pleasure-garden, pointing out where
When the World Shook |
