| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: and all the household in which I was so loved and trusted. Would
it be honourable? She would go away with me, but where? Where
could I take her? It would have been a different matter if I had
had a beautiful, interesting life -- if, for instance, I had been
struggling for the emancipation of my country, or had been a
celebrated man of science, an artist or a painter; but as it was
it would mean taking her from one everyday humdrum life to
another as humdrum or perhaps more so. And how long would our
happiness last? What would happen to her in case I was ill, in
case I died, or if we simply grew cold to one another?
"And she apparently reasoned in the same way. She thought of her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: clouded, infinitely wearisome. There they are:
stars, sun, sea, light, darkness, space, great waters;
the formidable Work of the Seven Days, into which
mankind seems to have blundered unbidden. Or
else decoyed. Even as I have been decoyed into
this awful, this death-haunted command. . . ."
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The only spot of light in the ship at night was
that of the compass-lamps, lighting up the faces of
the succeeding helmsmen; for the rest we were lost
in the darkness, I walking the poop and the men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: While his money lasted he was called Beppo the Generous. It was
only after it was all gone that they called him Beppo the
Foolish.
So by-and-by the money was spent, and there was an end of it.
Yes; there was an end of it; and where were all of Beppo's
fair-weather friends? Gone like the wild-geese in frosty weather.
"Don't you remember how I gave you a bagful of gold?" says Beppo
the Foolish. "Won't you remember me now in my time of need?"
But the fair-weather friend only laughed in his face.
"Don't you remember how I gave you a fine gold chain with a
diamond pendant?" says Beppo to another. "And won't you lend me a
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