| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: As soon as Mrs. Dashwood had recovered herself,
to see Marianne was her first desire; and in two minutes she
was with her beloved child, rendered dearer to her than ever
by absence, unhappiness, and danger. Elinor's delight,
as she saw what each felt in the meeting, was only checked
by an apprehension of its robbing Marianne of farther sleep;--
but Mrs. Dashwood could be calm, could be even prudent,
when the life of a child was at stake, and Marianne,
satisfied in knowing her mother was near her, and conscious
of being too weak for conversation, submitted readily to the
silence and quiet prescribed by every nurse around her.
Sense and Sensibility |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: Shluker shook his fist.
"Frame nothing!" he spluttered angrily. "Ain't I tellin' you that
the orders are not to make a move, that everything is off for a few
days? That's the word I got a little while ago, and the
Seven-Three-Nine is goin' out now. Nan'll tell you the same thing."
"Sure!" corroborated Rhoda Gray, picking up the obvious cue. "Dat's
de straight goods."
The two men were lounging beside a table that stood at the extreme
end of the room, and now for a moment they whispered together. And,
as they whispered, Rhoda Gray found her first opportunity to take
critical stock both of her surroundings and of the two men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: * * * * * * *
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and threw herself down to rest on a lawn as soft as moss, with little
flower-beds dotted about it here and there. `Oh, how glad I am
to get here! And what IS this on my head?' she exclaimed in a tone
of dismay, as she put her hands up to something very heavy,
and fitted tight all round her head.
`But how CAN it have got there without my knowing it?' she said
to herself, as she lifted it off, and set it on her lap to make
out what it could possibly be.
Through the Looking-Glass |
