| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: "You have very little vanity!" she said to me
yesterday. "What makes you think that I find
Grushnitski the more entertaining?"
I answered that I was sacrificing my own
pleasure for the sake of the happiness of a friend.
"And my pleasure, too," she added.
I looked at her intently and assumed a serious
air. After that for the whole day I did not speak
a single word to her. . . In the evening, she was
pensive; this morning, at the well, more pensive
still. When I went up to her, she was listening
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: the notion of asking her to stop suggested itself,
but he forbore to put it into action. Once he busied
himself for a time in kneeling before his safe,
and scrutinizing in detail the papers in one of the bundles
it contained.
At last--it was after ten o'clock, and the music above had
ceased--the welcome sounds of cab-wheels without, and then
of the door-bell, came to dispel his fidgeting suspense.
On the instant he straightened himself, and his face
rearranged its expression. He fastened upon the door
of the room the controlled, calm glance of one who is
The Market-Place |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: That never any fear awoke whereunder
She shuddered at her gift, or trembled lest
Thru the great doors of birth
Here to a windy earth
She lured from heaven a half-unwilling guest.
She caught and kept his first vague flickering smile,
The faint upleaping of his spirit's fire;
And for a long sweet while
In her was all he asked of earth or heaven--
But in the end how far,
Past every shaken star,
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