| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: glossy shoulders and jewelled throats, the glimmering of
satin-slippered feet,--than to watch the raging of the flood
without, or the flying of the wrack ...
So the music and the mirth went on: they made joy for
themselves--those elegant guests;--they jested and sipped rich
wines;--they pledged, and hoped, and loved, and promised, with
never a thought of the morrow, on the night of the tenth of
August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. Observant parents were
there, planning for the future bliss of their nearest and
dearest;--mothers and fathers of handsome lads, lithe and elegant
as young pines, and fresh from the polish of foreign university
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.
See you now, friend John? I have sown my corn, and Nature
has her work to do in making it sprout, if he sprout at all,
there's some promise, and I wait till the ear begins to swell."
He broke off, for he evidently saw that I understood.
Then he went on gravely, "You were always a careful student,
and your case book was ever more full than the rest.
And I trust that good habit have not fail. Remember, my friend,
that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust
the weaker. Even if you have not kept the good practice,
let me tell you that this case of our dear miss is one that may be,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: doing? I must put an end to myself.'
And again he felt afraid, and again, to escape from that thought,
he went on thinking about Pashenka.
So he lay for a long time, thinking now of his unavoidable end
and now of Pashenka. She presented herself to him as a means of
salvation. At last he fell asleep, and in his sleep he saw an
angel who came to him and said: 'Go to Pashenka and learn from
her what you have to do, what your sin is, and wherein lies your
salvation.'
He awoke, and having decided that this was a vision sent by God,
he felt glad, and resolved to do what had been told him in the
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