| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: just in her giving him this constant sense of his being admirably
spared, he was careful to remember that she had also a life of her
own, with things that might happen to HER, things that in
friendship one should likewise take account of. Something fairly
remarkable came to pass with him, for that matter, in this
connexion--something represented by a certain passage of his
consciousness, in the suddenest way, from one extreme to the other.
He had thought himself, so long as nobody knew, the most
disinterested person in the world, carrying his concentrated
burden, his perpetual suspense, ever so quietly, holding his tongue
about it, giving others no glimpse of it nor of its effect upon his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: half-tame mountain sheep practised jumping from the ground to the
roof. The cabin was papered with posters of a circus, and skins
of bear and silver fox lay upon the floor. Until nine o'clock one
man talked to the Virginian, and one played gayly upon a
concertina; and then we all went to bed. The air was like
December, but in my blankets and a buffalo robe I kept warm, and
luxuriated in the Rocky Mountain silence. Going to wash before
breakfast at sunrise, I found needles of ice in a pail. Yet it
was hard to remember that this quiet, open, splendid wilderness
(with not a peak in sight just here) was six thousand feet high.
And when breakfast was over there was no December left; and by
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: deaf and mute. Eliminate revenge, and infidelity in love is nothing.
Those who believe that for them there is but one woman in the world
must be in favor of vengeance, and then there is but one form of it--
that of Othello.
"Mine was different."
The words produced in each of us the imperceptible movement which
newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary reports by the words:
/great sensation/.
"Cured of my cold, and of my pure, absolute, divine love, I flung
myself into an adventure, of which the heroine was charming, and of a
style of beauty utterly opposed to that of my deceiving angel. I took
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