| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: street.
Two barefooted boys followed him out of the passage the elder in
a shirt that had once been white, the other in a worn and faded
pink one. Nekhludoff looked back at them.
"And where are you going now?" asked the boy with the white
shirt. Nekhludoff answered: "To Matrona Kharina. Do you know
her?" The boy with the pink shirt began laughing at something;
but the elder asked, seriously:
"What Matrona is that? Is she old?"
"Yes, she is old."
"Oh--oh," he drawled; "that one; she's at the other end of the
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: commonness, of everyday life.
He made his way to the top of Arthur's Seat, and there he sat for
a long time in the golden evening sunshine, still, except that
ever and again he whispered to himself some precious phrase that
had stuck in his mind.
'If,' he whispered, 'if only we could pick that lock. . . .'
The sun was sinking over the distant hills. Already it was shorn
of its beams, a globe of ruddy gold, hanging over the great banks
of cloud that would presently engulf it.
'Eh!' said the youngster. 'Eh!'
He seemed to wake up at last out of his entrancement, and the red
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "If you are still here, Lucy," he said, "and have not yet gone on,
I want you to carry this with you. We are all right, here.
Everybody is all right. You are not to worry."
After a time he went back to his room and got his prayer-book.
He could hear Harrison Miller's voice soothing Minnie in the lower
hall, and Reynolds at the telephone. He went back into the quiet
chamber, and opening the prayer-book, began to read aloud.
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits
of them that slept - "
His voice tightened. He put his head down on the side of the bed.
He was very docile that day. He moved obediently from his room for
The Breaking Point |
