| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: amethysts? So I took the brooch. I thought I could put it back
before you came home. I went all the way around by the road to
lengthen out the time. When I was going over the bridge across
the Lake of Shining Waters I took the brooch off to have another
look at it. Oh, how it did shine in the sunlight! And then, when
I was leaning over the bridge, it just slipped through my
fingers--so--and went down--down--down, all purplysparkling, and
sank forevermore beneath the Lake of Shining Waters. And that's
the best I can do at confessing, Marilla."
Marilla felt hot anger surge up into her heart again. This child
had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: --And so the conversation slips
Among velleities and carefully caught regrets
Through attenuated tones of violins
Mingled with remote cornets
And begins.
"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind!
How keen you are!)
To find a friend who has these qualities,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: her feet might have been valued at almost countless millions
of roubles.
The Emir and the Khans dismounted, as did the dig-
nitaries who escorted them. All entered a magnificent tent
erected on the center of the first terrace. Before the tent,
as usual, the Koran was laid.
Feofar's lieutenant did not make them wait, and before
five o'clock the trumpets announced his arrival. Ivan
Ogareff -- the Scarred Cheek, as he was already nick-named
-- wearing the uniform of a Tartar officer, dismounted be-
fore the Emir's tent. He was accompanied by a party of
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