| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: which were mechanical and perfunctory, I scantily enjoyed my journey:
there was too strong a taste of the disagreeable in my life.
I had been devilish awkward, as the young men say, to be found by Miss
Bordereau in the dead of night examining the attachment of her bureau;
and it had not been less so to have to believe for a good many hours
afterward that it was highly probable I had killed her. In writing
to Miss Tita I attempted to minimize these irregularities; but as she gave
me no word of answer I could not know what impression I made upon her.
It rankled in my mind that I had been called a publishing scoundrel,
for certainly I did publish and certainly I had not been very delicate.
There was a moment when I stood convinced that the only way to make up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: learning. Men must learn till they reach
their fifteenth year. Then they go to work.
In the Home of the Students we arose when
the big bell rang in the tower and we went
to our beds when it rang again. Before we
removed our garments, we stood in the
great sleeping hall, and we raised our right
arms, and we said all together with the
three Teachers at the head:
"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace
of our brothers are we allowed our lives.
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: grief. This woman was more strictly guarded than any-
one else, and, without her appearing to notice, was con-
stantly watched by the Tsigane Sangarre. Notwithstanding
her age she was compelled to follow the convoy of prisoners
on foot, without any alleviation of her suffering.
However, a kind Providence had placed near her a coura-
geous, kind-hearted being to comfort and assist her.
Amongst her companions in misfortune a young girl, re-
markable for beauty and taciturnity, seemed to have given
herself the task of watching over her. No words had been
exchanged between the two captives, but the girl was always
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