| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: pressed on him, he had only to choose .... And the women! She
had never before thought of the women. All the girls in England
would be wanting to marry him, not to mention her own
enterprising compatriots. And there were the married women, who
were even more to be feared. Streff might, for the time, escape
marriage; though she could guess the power of persuasion, family
pressure, all the converging traditional influences he had so
often ridiculed, yet, as she knew, had never completely thrown
off .... Yes, those quiet invisible women at Altringham-his
uncle's widow, his mother, the spinster sisters--it was not
impossible that, with tact and patience--and the stupidest women
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: shining and the guns of sportsmen were still noisy through the
tufted plain) the Cigarette was drawing near at his more
philosophic pace. In those days of liberty and health he was the
constant partner of the Arethusa, and had ample opportunity to
share in that gentleman's disfavour with the police. Many a bitter
bowl had he partaken of with that disastrous comrade. He was
himself a man born to float easily through life, his face and
manner artfully recommending him to all. There was but one
suspicious circumstance he could not carry off, and that was his
companion. He will not readily forget the Commissary in what is
ironically called the free town of Frankfort-on-the-Main ; nor the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: irony - since, save for the panic of this thing, the second thing
might never have happened.
As it was, my frenzy was absolute
and unrelieved. Taking my torch in my hand and clutching feebly
at the case, I leaped and bounded wildly ahead with no idea in
my brain beyond a mad desire to race out of these nightmare ruins
to the waking world of desert and moonlight which lay so far above.
I hardly knew it when I reached the mountain of debris which
towered into the vast blackness beyond the caved-in roof, and
bruised and cut myself repeatedly in scrambling up its steep slope
of jagged blocks and fragments.
Shadow out of Time |
