| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: twice over.
"I had heard all from Mary, and made my uncle furnish a little
cottage for her, to enable her to sell--so sacred was poor Daniel's
advice, now he was dead and gone a little fruit, toys and cakes.
The minding of the shop did not require her whole time, nor even
the keeping her children clean, and she loved to see them clean;
so she took in washing, and altogether made a shift to earn bread
for her children, still weeping for Daniel, when Jacky's arch looks
made her think of his father.--It was pleasant to work for her
children.--'Yes; from morning till night, could she have had a kiss
from their father, God rest his soul! Yes; had it pleased Providence
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: Now I shall dwell but briefly on all the adventures which befell me
during the year or so that I remained in Spain, for were I to set
out everything at length, this history would have no end, or at
least mine would find me before I came to it.
Many travellers have told of the glories of Seville, to which
ancient Moorish city I journeyed with all speed, sailing there up
the Guadalquiver, and I have to tell of lands from which no other
wanderer has returned to England, and must press on to them. To be
short then; foreseeing that it might be necessary for me to stop
some time in Seville, and being desirous to escape notice and to be
at the smallest expense possible, I bethought me that it would be
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: meeting. He got up and began walking about the room.
"What's the use of being dreary?" said Agafea Mihalovna. "Come,
why do you stay on at home? You ought to go to some warm springs,
especially now you're ready for the journey."
"Well, I am going away the day after to-morrow, Agafea Mihalovna;
I must finish my work."
"There, there, your work, you say! As if you hadn't done enough
for the peasants! Why, as 'tie, they're saying, 'Your master will
be getting some honor from the Tsar for it.' Indeed and it is a
strange thing; why need you worry about the peasants?"
"I'm not worrying about them; I'm doing it for my own good."
Anna Karenina |
