| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: keeping up my studies every now and then, but there isn't much time
for it. I love you so! and I send you a hug and a kiss.
CATHY.
P.S. - I belong to the Seventh Cavalry and Ninth Dragoons, I am an
officer, too, and do not have to work on account of not getting any
wages.
CHAPTER V - GENERAL ALISON TO MERCEDES
She has been with us a good nice long time, now. You are troubled
about your sprite because this is such a wild frontier, hundreds of
miles from civilization, and peopled only by wandering tribes of
savages? You fear for her safety? Give yourself no uneasiness
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: set forth alone to his long task.
The home of the Earth Spirits was the first to find, and no one
would tell him where to look. So far and wide he wandered, through
gloomy forests and among lonely hills, with none to cheer him when
sad and weary, none to guide him on his way.
On he went, thinking of Lily-Bell, and for her sake bearing all;
for in his quiet prison many gentle feelings and kindly thoughts had
sprung up in his heart, and he now strove to be friends with all, and
win for himself the love and confidence of those whom once he sought
to harm and cruelly destroy.
But few believed him; for they remembered his false promises and
Flower Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: irritated with you according to the measure of their sincerity with
themselves. And all of them in their hearts brand you for either
mad or impudent . . . "
I had seldom seen Marlow so vehement, so pessimistic, so earnestly
cynical before. I cut his declamation short by asking what answer
Flora de Barral had given to his question. "Did the poor girl admit
firing off her confidences at Mrs. Fyne--eight pages of close
writing--that sort of thing?"
Marlow shook his head.
"She did not tell me. I accepted her silence, as a kind of answer
and remarked that it would have been better if she had simply
Chance |
