| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: Friday
She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and
says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I
told her there would be another result, too--it would introduce
death into the world. That was a mistake--it had been better to
keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea--she could
save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent
lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She
said she wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Will emigrate.
Wednesday
I have had a variegated time. I escaped that night, and rode a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: to seek her. This girl, whose name is Dinah, will never criticise
me; she will never contradict me; I shall be her Upper Chamber,
her Lords and Commons. In short, Paul, she is indefeasible
evidence of the English genius; she is a product of English
mechanics brought to their highest pitch of perfection; she was
undoubtedly made at Manchester, between the manufactory of Perry's
pens and the workshops for steam-engines. It eats, it drinks, it
walks, it may have children, take good care of them, and bring
them up admirably, and it apes a woman so well that you would
believe it real.
When my mother introduced us, she had set up the machine so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: pointing at her port of destination. Bankok! That's
what he was after. I tell you this quiet, bowed, bandy-
legged, almost deformed little man was immense in the
singleness of his idea and in his placid ignorance of
our agitation. He motioned us forward with a com-
manding gesture, and went to take the wheel him-
self.
"Yes; that was the first thing we did--trim the yards
of that wreck! No one was killed, or even disabled, but
everyone was more or less hurt. You should have seen
them! Some were in rags, with black faces, like coal-
Youth |
