| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: You told me you were afraid she was a latent coquette. You gave me a chance,
and I tried to ascertain."
"And you found she was not. Is that what you mean?"
"She 's as firm as a rock. My dear Gordon, Miss Vivian is as firm
as the firmest of your geological formations."
Gordon shook his head with a strange positive persistence.
"You are talking nonsense. You are not serious. You are not telling
me the truth. I don't believe that you attempted to make love to her.
You would n't have played such a game as that. It would n't have
been honorable."
Bernard flushed a little; he was irritated.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: I had retired to rest with an unsolved problem in my mind.
In the night I had a dream.
I saw before me a vast multitude of small Straight Lines
(which I naturally assumed to be Women) interspersed with other Beings
still smaller and of the nature of lustrous points -- all moving
to and fro in one and the same Straight Line, and, as nearly as I
could judge, with the same velocity.
A noise of confused, multitudinous chirping or twittering
issued from them at intervals as long as they were moving;
but sometimes they ceased from motion, and then all was silence.
Approaching one of the largest of what I thought to be Women,
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: more to the point with Brus, at the same time slipping
a couple of golden zecchins into the gardener's palm.
Brus, like the other palace servants, considered De
Vac a loyal retainer of the house of Plantagenet. What-
ever else of mischief De Vac might be up to, Brus was
quite sure that in so far as the King was concerned, the
key to the postern gate was as safe in De Vac's hands
as though Henry himself had it.
The old fellow wondered a little that the morose
old master of fence should, at his time in life, indulge
in frivolous escapades more befitting the younger sprigs
The Outlaw of Torn |
