| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: host. "Richard Varney--why, what between his influence with my
lord, and his pretending to so many old and vexatious claims in
right of the abbot here, men fear almost to mention his name,
much more to set themselves against his practices. You may judge
by our discourses the last night. Men said their pleasure of Tony
Foster, but not a word of Richard Varney, though all men judge
him to be at the bottom of yonder mystery about the pretty wench.
But perhaps you know more of that matter than I do; for women,
though they wear not swords, are occasion for many a blade's
exchanging a sheath of neat's leather for one of flesh and
blood."
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the lunatic asylum in Kasan. I am well and in good spirits and
hope for the best."
All were discussing Petlin's position and the possible reasons of
Neveroff's suicide. Only Kryltzoff sat silent and preoccupied,
his glistening eyes gazing fixedly in front of him.
"My husband told me that Neveroff had a vision while still in the
Petropavlovski prison," said Rintzeva.
"Yes, he was a poet, a dreamer; this sort of people cannot stand
solitary confinement," said Novodvoroff. "Now, I never gave my
imagination vent when in solitary confinement, but arranged my
days most systematically, and in this way always bore it very
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Sebastian the Goldsmith clapped his hands together. A door
opened, and there came three black slaves into the room. The
Goldsmith spoke to them in a strange language, and the chief of
the three black slaves bowed in reply. Then he and the others led
Beppo into another room where there was a marble bath of tepid
water. They bathed him and rubbed him with soft linen towels;
then they shaved the beard from his cheeks and chin and trimmed
his hair; then they clothed him in fine linen and a plain suit of
gray and Beppo looked like a new man.
Then when all this was done the chief of the blacks conducted
Beppo back to Sebastian the Goldsmith. There was a fine feast
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