| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: darkness on a garden bench. The odor of the canal was doubtless
at the bottom of that aspiration and the breath of the garden,
as I entered it, gave consistency to my purpose. it was delicious--
just such an air as must have trembled with Romeo's vows when he stood
among the flowers and raised his arms to his mistress's balcony.
I looked at the windows of the palace to see if by chance
the example of Verona (Verona being not far off) had been followed;
but everything was dim, as usual, and everything was still.
Juliana, on summer nights in her youth, might have murmured down
from open windows at Jeffrey Aspern, but Miss Tita was not a poet's
mistress any more than I was a poet. This however did not prevent
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: must divert my attention!"
"Amuse yourself with Milady, my dear D'Artagnan; I wish you
may with all my heart, if that will amuse you."
"Hear me, Athos," said D'Artagnan. "Instead of shutting
yourself up here as if you were under arrest, get on
horseback and come and take a ride with me to St. Germain."
"My dear fellow," said Athos, "I ride horses when I have
any; when I have none, I go afoot."
"Well," said D'Artagnan, smiling at the misanthropy of
Athos, which from any other person would have offended him,
"I ride what I can get; I am not so proud as you. So AU
The Three Musketeers |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: is my little neighbor, now; the people who
bought your old place. I wouldn't have sold it
to any one else, but I was always fond of that
girl. You must remember her, little Marie
Tovesky, from Omaha, who used to visit here?
When she was eighteen she ran away from the
convent school and got married, crazy child!
She came out here a bride, with her father and
husband. He had nothing, and the old man
was willing to buy them a place and set them
up. Your farm took her fancy, and I was glad
O Pioneers! |
