| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: there till the end, though they may have outgrown the span of
each other's natures as the mature tree outgrows the iron brace
about the sapling.
It was in the first heat of her moral indignation that she had
met Clement Westall. She had seen at once that he was
"interested," and had fought off the discovery, dreading any
influence that should draw her back into the bondage of
conventional relations. To ward off the peril she had, with an
almost crude precipitancy, revealed her opinions to him. To her
surprise, she found that he shared them. She was attracted by
the frankness of a suitor who, while pressing his suit, admitted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: there is more freedom there and people are better off. Everything
is better there. Take the rivers there, for instance; they are
far better than those here. There's no end of fish; and all sorts
of wild fowl. And my greatest pleasure, brothers, is fishing.
Give me no bread to eat, but let me sit with a fishhook. Yes,
indeed! I fish with a hook and with a wire line, and set creels,
and when the ice comes I catch with a net. I am not strong to
draw up the net, so I shall hire a man for five kopecks. And,
Lord, what a pleasure it is! You catch an eel-pout or a roach of
some sort and are as pleased as though you had met your own
brother. And would you believe it, there's a special art for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: as they passed through the midst of it all.
The fiercest was driven by a Numidian who was crowned with a diadem of
plumes. He hurled javelins with frightful quickness, giving at
intervals a long shrill whistle. The great beasts, docile as dogs,
kept an eye on him during the carnage.
The circle of them narrowed by degrees; the weakened Barbarians
offered no resistance; the elephants were soon in the centre of the
plain. They lacked space; they thronged half-rearing together, and
their tusks clashed against one another. Suddenly Narr' Havas quieted
them, and wheeling round they trotted back to the hills.
Two syntagmata, however, had taken refuge on the right in a bend of
Salammbo |
