| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: told me she was going on the stage, and then wrote to me of her
love; when she was periodically overcome by extravagance, and I
continually had to send her first one and then two thousand
roubles; when she wrote to me of her intention of suicide, and
then of the death of her baby, every time I lost my head, and all
my sympathy for her sufferings found no expression except that,
after prolonged reflection, I wrote long, boring letters which I
might just as well not have written. And yet I took a father's
place with her and loved her like a daughter!
Now Katya is living less than half a mile off. She has taken a
flat of five rooms, and has installed herself fairly comfortably
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: body very pitiful to the passers-by, it was this that gave to her
face its homely, cheery smile. It made her eyes quick to know
the message in the depths of colour in the evening sky, or even
the flickering tints of the green creeper on the wall with its
crimson cornucopias filled with hot shining. She liked clear,
vital colours, this girl,--the crimsons and blues. They answered
her, somehow. They could speak. There were things in the world
that like herself were marred,--did not understand,--were hungry
to know: the gray sky, the mud streets, the tawny lichens. She
cried sometimes, looking at them, hardly knowing why: she could
not help it, with a vague sense of loss. It seemed at those
Margret Howth: A Story of To-day |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: to inspect the occupants of all the others, from the engine
to the guard's van. He was muffled up to the eyes, and he warned
me to keep out of sight in the corner of the compartment.
In fact, his behavior had me bursting with curiosity.
The train having started:
"Don't imagine, Petrie," said Smith "that I am trying to lead you
blindfolded in order later to dazzle you with my perspicacity.
I am simply afraid that this may be a wild-goose chase.
The idea upon which I am acting does not seem to have struck you.
I wish it had. The fact would argue in favor of its being, sound."
"At present I am hopelessly mystified."
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
