| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true,
though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is
most common among Englishmen and Americans today. It is not every
truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a
place for the wild Clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some
expressions of truth are reminiscent--others merely SENSIBLE, as
the phrase is,--others prophetic. Some forms of disease, even,
may prophesy forms of health. The geologist has discovered that
the figures of serpents, griffins, flying dragons, and other
fanciful embellishments of heraldry, have their prototypes in the
forms of fossil species which were extinct before man was
Walking |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: do with the sense I had of her courtesy; only I remember, when I
told her how much I was obliged to her, that I looked very full in
her eyes, - and that I repeated my thanks as often as she had done
her instructions.
I had not got ten paces from the door, before I found I had forgot
every tittle of what she had said; - so looking back, and seeing
her still standing in the door of the shop, as if to look whether I
went right or not, - I returned back to ask her, whether the first
turn was to my right or left, - for that I had absolutely forgot. -
Is it possible! said she, half laughing. 'Tis very possible,
replied I, when a man is thinking more of a woman than of her good
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: their papers were seized and all concerned were arrested. "I was
also arrested, and shall be exiled. But what does it matter? I
feel perfectly happy." She concluded her story with a piteous
smile.
Nekhludoff made some inquiries concerning the girl with the
prominent eyes. Vera Doukhova told him that this girl was the
daughter of a general, and had been long attached to the
revolutionary party, and was arrested because she had pleaded
guilty to having shot a gendarme. She lived in a house with some
conspirators, where they had a secret printing press. One night,
when the police came to search this house, the occupiers resolved
Resurrection |
