| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: Tiberias--whither it might be he would never return.
The Jordan wound its way through the arid plains that met his gaze;
white and glittering under the clear sky, it dazzled the eye like snow
in the rays of the sun.
The Dead Sea now looked like a sheet of lapis-lazuli; and at its
southern extremity, on the coast of Yemen, Antipas recognised clearly
what at first he had been able only dimly to perceive. Several tents
could now be plainly seen; men carrying spears were moving about among
a group of horses; and dying camp-fires shone faintly in the beams of
the rising sun.
This was a troop belonging to the sheikh of the Arabs, the daughter of
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: standards.
XVII The Lost Mine of the Padres
In the cool, starry evenings the campers sat around a blazing
fire and told and listened to stories thrillingly fitted to the
dark crags and the wild solitude.
Monty Price had come to shine brilliantly as a storyteller. He
was an atrocious liar, but this fact would not have been evident
to his enthralled listeners if his cowboy comrades, in base
jealousy, had not betrayed him. The truth about his remarkable
fabrications, however, had not become known to Castleton, solely
because of the Englishman's obtuseness. And there was another
The Light of Western Stars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: The doctor's house, on the side facing the garden, consists of a
ground floor and a single story, with a row of five windows in each,
dormer windows also project from the tiled mansard-roof. The green-
painted shutters are in startling contrast with the gray tones of the
walls. A vine wanders along the whole side of the house, a pleasant
strip of green like a frieze, between the two stories. A few
struggling Bengal roses make shift to live as best they may, half
drowned at times by the drippings from the gutterless eaves.
As you enter the large vestibule, the salon lies to your right; it
contains four windows, two of which look into the yard, and two into
the garden. Ceiling and wainscot are paneled, and the walls are hung
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