| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its
unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had
happened -- or making a prophetic lamentation about something
that was yet to happen -- within the verge of the dismal forest.
So Pearl, who had enough of shadow in her own little life, chose
to break off all acquaintance with this repining brook. She set
herself, therefore, to gathering violets and wood-anemones, and
some scarlet columbines that she found growing in the crevice of
a high rock.
When her elf-child had departed, Hester Prynne made a step or two
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: seemed to feel safety in returning to that.
And so the history of that mine became once more plunged in
darkness, lit only by some monster pyrotechnical displays of
gossip. And perhaps the most curious feature of the whole
matter is this: that we should have dwelt in this quiet
corner of the mountains, with not a dozen neighbours, and yet
struggled all the while, like desperate swimmers, in this sea
of falsities and contradictions. Wherever a man is, there
will be a lie.
TOILS AND PLEASURES
I MUST try to convey some notion of our life, of how the days
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: this Lot was he that was saved, when Sodom and Gomorrah and the
other cities were burnt and sunken down to hell, where that the
Dead Sea is now, as I have told you before. In that land of
Chaldea they have their proper languages and their proper letters,
such as ye may see hereafter.
Beside the land of Chaldea is the land of Amazonia, that is the
land of Feminye. And in that realm is all women and no man; not,
as some men say, that men may not live there, but for because that
the women will not suffer no men amongst them to be their
sovereigns.
For sometime there was a king in that country. And men married, as
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