| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: II
A Thought
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace
In every Christian kind of place.
III
At the Sea-side
When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: his entreaties.
"Who told you that I was handing this sum to her?" I asked.
"My solicitor. Could an honest man carry out such a procedure
without warning me? Well, it is to prevent you from ruining
yourself for a prostitute that I am now in Paris. Your mother,
when she died, left you enough to live on respectably, and not to
squander on your mistresses."
"I swear to you, father, that Marguerite knew nothing of this
transfer."
"Why, then, do you make it?"
"Because Marguerite, the woman you calumniate, and whom you wish
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of
American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit
to America I seemed to recover my cousins' atmosphere as soon as I
entered the train at Euston. There were three girls in my
compartment supplied with huge decorated cases of sweets, and being
seen off by a company of friends, noisily arch and eager about the
"steamer letters" they would get at Liverpool; they were the very
soul-sisters of my cousins. The chief elements of a good time, as
my cousins judged it, as these countless thousands of rich young
women judge it, are a petty eventfulness, laughter, and to feel that
you are looking well and attracting attention. Shopping is one of
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