| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: David, who was content that one emergency had passed, she looked
ahead and saw their common life a series of such chances, with
their anxieties and their dangers.
She could not eat.
Nevertheless when she herself admitted a new patient for Dick that
afternoon, she had no premonition of trouble. She sent him into
the waiting-room, a tall, robust and youngish man, perhaps in his
late thirties, and went quietly on her way to her sitting-room,
and to her weekly mending.
On the other hand, Louis Bassett was feeling more or less
uncomfortable. There was an air of peace and quiet respectability
The Breaking Point |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: grow there; and he takes his stand, as it were, among the graves
of the ancient persecutors, and triumphantly recounts the
judgments that overtook them, in old age or at the parting hour.
He tells us that they died suddenly and violently and in madness;
but nothing can exceed the bitter mockery with which he records
the loathsome disease, and "death by rottenness," of the fierce
and cruel governor.
. . . . . . . . .
On the evening of the autumn day that had witnessed the martyrdom
of two men of the Quaker persuasion, a Puritan settler was
returning from the metropolis to the neighboring country town in
Twice Told Tales |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: With a single motion, Felicite replied that it was not necessary.
There was a silence. Old Liebard thought it about time for him to take
leave.
Then Felicite uttered:
"They have no sympathy, they do not care!"
Her head fell forward again, and from time to time, mechanically, she
toyed with the long knitting-needles on the work-table.
Some women passed through the yard with a basket of wet clothes.
When she saw them through the window, she suddenly remembered her own
wash; as she had soaked it the day before, she must go and rinse it
now. So she arose and left the room.
A Simple Soul |
