| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: And he desguised fledde aweie
Be schipe, and hield the rihte weie
To Macedoine, wher that he
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Thre yomen of his chambre there
Al only forto serve him were,
The whiche he trusteth wonder wel,
For thei were trewe as eny stiel;
And hapneth that thei with him ladde
Part of the beste good he hadde.
Thei take logginge in the toun
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: so much as when, after their walk had lasted a few minutes and he
had had time to wonder if a couple of sidelong glances from her
meant that he had best have put on gloves she almost pulled him up
with an amused challenge. "But why--fondly as it's so easy to
imagine your clinging to it--don't you put it away? Or if it's an
inconvenience to you to carry it, one's often glad to have one's
card back. The fortune one spends in them!"
Then he saw both that his way of marching with his own prepared
tribute had affected her as a deviation in one of those directions
he couldn't yet measure, and that she supposed this emblem to be
still the one he had received from her. He accordingly handed her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: coughing than any she had had while I was there. It seemed as if
her chest were being torn in two. The poor girl turned crimson,
closed her eyes under the pain, and put her napkin to her lips.
It was stained with a drop of blood. She rose and ran into her
dressing-room.
"What is the matter with Marguerite?" asked Gaston.
"She has been laughing too much, and she is spitting blood. Oh,
it is nothing; it happens to her every day. She will be back in a
minute. Leave her alone. She prefers it."
I could not stay still; and, to the consternation of Prudence and
Nanine, who called to me to come back, I followed Marguerite."
Camille |
