| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: waist and pressed him to herself.
'What are you doing?' he said. 'Marie, you are a devil!'
'Oh, perhaps. What does it matter?'
And embracing him she sat down with him on the bed.
At dawn he went out into the porch.
'Can this all have happened? Her father will come and she will
tell him everything. She is a devil! What am I to do? Here is
the axe with which I chopped off my finger.' He snatched up the
axe and moved back towards the cell.
The attendant came up.
'Do you want some wood chopped? Let me have the axe.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: DAMOETAS
"Gay Galatea throws an apple at me,
Then hies to the willows, hoping to be seen."
MENALCAS
"My dear Amyntas comes unasked to me;
Not Delia to my dogs is better known."
DAMOETAS
"Gifts for my love I've found; mine eyes have marked
Where the wood-pigeons build their airy nests."
MENALCAS
"Ten golden apples have I sent my boy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: valleys, when the silence was broken by the
jingling of the bell of a travelling-carriage and
the shouting of drivers in the street. A few
vehicles, accompanied by dirty Armenians, drove
into the courtyard of the inn, and behind them
came an empty travelling-carriage. Its light
movement, comfortable arrangement, and elegant
appearance gave it a kind of foreign stamp. Be-
hind it walked a man with large moustaches. He
was wearing a Hungarian jacket and was rather
well dressed for a manservant. From the bold
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