| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: head to avoid looking at it. Vitellius threw upon it an indifferent
glance.
Mannaeus descended from the pavilion, took the charger from the woman,
and exhibited the head to the Roman captains, then to all the guests
on that side of the hall.
They looked at it curiously.
The sharp blade of the sword had cut into the jaw with a swift
downward stroke. The corners of the mouth were drawn, as if by a
convulsion. Clots of blood besprinkled the beard. The closed eyelids
had a shell-like transparency, and the candelabra on every side
lighted up the gruesome object with terrible distinctness.
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: dwell. Many a time he tried to attack them; but whenever he came
near they turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way
he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At
last, however, they fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each
went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then
the Lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all
four.
United we stand, divided we fall.
The Fisher and the Little Fish
It happened that a Fisher, after fishing all day, caught only
a little fish. "Pray, let me go, master," said the Fish. "I am
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: thing had happened and she was growing each moment more
and more deeply interested in the study of the
remarkable youth by her side.
He was not handsome in the conventional sense. His
features were too strong for that. An enemy might have
called them coarse. Their first impression was of
enormous strength and exhaustless vitality. He walked
with a quick, military precision and planted his small
feet on the pavement with a soft, sure tread that
suggested the strength of a young tiger.
The one feature that puzzled her was the size of
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