| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: that Rodney was out. When he could no longer pretend that the sound of
the wind in the old building was the sound of some one rising from his
chair, he ran downstairs again, as if his goal had been altered and
only just revealed to him. He walked in the direction of Chelsea.
But physical fatigue, for he had not dined and had tramped both far
and fast, made him sit for a moment upon a seat on the Embankment. One
of the regular occupants of those seats, an elderly man who had drunk
himself, probably, out of work and lodging, drifted up, begged a
match, and sat down beside him. It was a windy night, he said; times
were hard; some long story of bad luck and injustice followed, told so
often that the man seemed to be talking to himself, or, perhaps, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: the handkerchief, was overcome by the powerful fumes and died."
"But the inquest proved that Jimmie was killed by a dose of
aconitine poison," she reminded him, as she tucked the handkerchief
up her sleeve.
Kent did not reply immediately. "A man does not usually carry a
woman's handkerchief about with him," he commented slowly. "Odd,
is it not, that Jimmie should have used a handkerchief of yours
in the police court just prior to his death, while you were sitting
a few feet away?"
"I?" Mrs. Brewster turned and regarded him steadfastly. She was
deadly white under her rouge. "Mr. Kent, are you crazy?"
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: satisfaction to find recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a
reasonably complete explanation of the whole
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affair. There were several foolscap sheets, containing many
particulars respecting the life and conversation of one Hester
The Scarlet Letter |
