| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov: there was weeping. Across rows of bottles on a marble-top table
he distinguished a suffering face, wet with tears, stretched out
his hands towards that face, took a step towards the table, but
at once drew back in horror. The weeping girl was drunk.
As he made his way though the noisy crowd gathered about the fair
man, his heart sank and he felt frightened like a child; and it
seemed to him that in this alien, incomprehensible world people
wanted to pursue him, to beat him, to pelt him with filthy
words. . . . He tore down his coat from the hatstand and ran
headlong downstairs.
V
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: of evil thoughts, and befoul the cleanness of his mind. So, when
the enemy was in great straits on every side, and altogether in
despair of taking this noble youth, like a cunning knave, he
proceeded to another more subtil device, he that is for ever
wicked, and never stinteth to contrive mischief and hurt. For he
made furious endeavour to carry out the orders that Theudas had
given him, and once more prepared his drugs, and on this wise.
The devil entered into the heart of one of the young damsels. Of
all she was the most seemly, a king's daughter, carried away
captive from her own country, given to king Abenner as a great
prize, and sent by him, being of ripe beauty, to his own son, for
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Then, sir," said I, "I have to beg the favour of an interview."
"I do not know your name," said he, "nor yet your face."
"My name is David Balfour," said I.
"David Balfour?" he repeated, in rather a high tone, like one
surprised. "And where have you come from, Mr. David Balfour?" he
asked, looking me pretty drily in the face.
"I have come from a great many strange places, sir," said I; "but
I think it would be as well to tell you where and how in a more
private manner."
He seemed to muse awhile, holding his lip in his hand, and
looking now at me and now upon the causeway of the street.
Kidnapped |
