| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: best--to be kind.
"But all my days now I shall mourn for him and long for
him. . . . "
She turned back to the coffin. Suddenly she lost every
vestige of self-control. She sank down on her knees beside
the trestle. "Why have you left me!" she cried.
"Oh! Speak to me, my darling! Speak to me, I TELL YOU! Speak
to me!"
It was a storm of passion, monstrously childish and dreadful.
She beat her hands upon the coffin. She wept loudly and
fiercely as a child does....
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: "We shall get her off before midnight, sir."
He smiled faintly without looking up, and muttered as if to
himself:
"Yes, yes; the captain put the ship ashore and we got her off."
Then, raising his head, he attacked grumpily the steward, a lanky,
anxious youth with a long, pale face and two big front teeth.
"What makes this soup so bitter? I am surprised the mate can
swallow the beastly stuff. I'm sure the cook's ladled some salt
water into it by mistake."
The charge was so outrageous that the steward for all answer only
dropped his eyelids bashfully.
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "You would return to captivity?" cried Ja.
"My friends are there," I replied, "the only friends I
have in Pellucidar, except yourself. What else may I
do under the circumstances?"
He thought for a moment in silence. Then he shook his
head sorrowfully.
"It is what a brave man and a good friend should do,"
he said; "yet it seems most foolish, for the Mahars will
most certainly condemn you to death for running away,
and so you will be accomplishing nothing for your friends
by returning. Never in all my life have I heard of a
At the Earth's Core |
