| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: thicket in which the Bushmen had started up in my path on the night
that Lilian had watched for my coming. The earth at my feet was
rife with creeping plants and many-colored flowers, the sky
overhead was half hid by motionless pines. Suddenly, whether
crawling out from the herbage or dropping down from the trees, by
my side stood the white-robed and skeleton form--Ayesha's attendant
the Strangler.
I sprang from him shuddering, then halted and faced him. The
hideous creature crept toward me, cringing and fawning, making
signs of humble goodwill and servile obeisance. Again I recoiled--
wrathfully, loathingly, turned my face homeward, and fled on. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: had matter to discuss with Mrs. Fonblanque. They came at a
foot's pace, eagerly conversing in a whisper; and presently
after the moon rose and showed them looking eagerly in each
other's faces as they went, my mother laying her hand upon
the doctor's arm, and the doctor himself, against his usual
custom, making vigorous gestures of protest or asseveration.
At the foot of the track which ascended the talus of the
mountain to his door, the doctor overtook me at a trot.
'Here,' he said, 'we shall dismount; and as your mother
prefers to be alone, you and I shall walk together to my
house.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: freedom. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the chastened
security of the Tredgold Women's College for Russell's unbridled
classes, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume
and spend the residue of the night with Widgett's ramshackle
girls in some indescribable hotel in Soho!
He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the
situation and his sister had become altogether too urgent. He
had finally put aside The Lilac Sunbonnet, gone into his study,
lit the gas fire, and written the letter that had brought these
unsatisfactory relations to a head.
Part 4
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