| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: fresh as the bride and bridegroom, and the decorations are in blossom
like their love; everything is in harmony with youthful notions and
ardent wishes.
Half-way down the Rue Taitbout, in a house whose stone walls were
still white, where the columns of the hall and the doorway were as yet
spotless, and the inner walls shone with the neat painting which our
recent intimacy with English ways had brought into fashion, there was,
on the second floor, a small set of rooms fitted by the architect as
though he had known what their use would be. A simple airy ante-room,
with a stucco dado, formed an entrance into a drawing-room and dining-
room. Out of the drawing-room opened a pretty bedroom, with a bathroom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: power; to confess the truth, my ease of mind was the result of my
own vanity. Le Mire had flattered me into the belief that she
was
my friend.
A week passed--a dull week, during which I saw little of Harry
and Le Mire not at all. At the time, I remember, I was
interested
in some chemical experiments--I am a dabbler with the tubes--and
went out but little. Then--this was on Friday--Harry sought me
out
in the laboratory to tell me he was going away. In answer to my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: of a brown egg and then to a deep creamy.
"All the same, my dear," she said surprisingly, "freedom's best!" Her
soft, fat chuckle sounded like a purr. "Freedom's best," said Mrs. Stubbs
again.
Freedom! Alice gave a loud, silly little titter. She felt awkward. Her
mind flew back to her own kitching. Ever so queer! She wanted to be back
in it again.
Chapter 1.IX.
A strange company assembled in the Burnells' washhouse after tea. Round
the table there sat a bull, a rooster, a donkey that kept forgetting it was
a donkey, a sheep and a bee. The washhouse was the perfect place for such
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