| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: what can I do--how on earth am I to keep myself alive? I see
myself reduced to the fate of that poor Silverton woman--slinking
about to employment agencies, and trying to sell painted
blotting-pads to Women's Exchanges! And there are thousands and
thousands of women trying to do the same thing already, and not
one of the number who has less idea how to earn a dollar than I
have!"
She rose again with a hurried glance at the clock. "It's late,
and I must be off--I have an appointment with Carry Fisher. Don't
look so worried, you dear thing--don't think too much about the
nonsense I've been talking." She was before the mirror again,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: of comfort, apparently indifferent, yet with her breast torn by
conflicting impulses raised unexpectedly by events she had not
foreseen, or at least did not expect to happen so soon. With her
heart deeply moved by the sight of Almayer's misery, knowing it
in her power to end it with a word, longing to bring peace to
that troubled heart, she heard with terror the voice of her
overpowering love commanding her to be silent. And she submitted
after a short and fierce struggle of her old self against the new
principle of her life. She wrapped herself up in absolute
silence, the only safeguard against some fatal admission. She
could not trust herself to make a sign, to murmur a word for fear
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Walking around this carefully, Muller approached the candlestick
that interested him and holding up his light he examined every inch
of its surface. He found what he was looking for. There were dark
red spots between the rough edges of the silver ornamentation.
"Then the body is somewhere around here," thought the detective and
came down from the steps, still holding the burning candle.
He walked slowly to the back of the altar. There was a little table
there such as held the sacred dishes for the communion service, and
the little carpet-covered steps which the sexton put out for the
pastor when he took the monstrance from the high-built tabernacle.
That was all that was to be seen in the dark corner behind the altar.
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