| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: that were I once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit,
even as you did my poor Lucy's. Were death, or the fear of death,
the only thing that stood in the way I would not shrink to die
here now, amidst the friends who love me. But death is not all.
I cannot believe that to die in such a case, when there is
hope before us and a bitter task to be done, is God's will.
Therefore, I on my part, give up here the certainty of eternal rest,
and go out into the dark where may be the blackest things that
the world or the nether world holds!"
We were all silent, for we knew instinctively that this was only a prelude.
The faces of the others were set, and Harker's grew ashen grey.
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: rolled him in the dough.
"Will not the string be very indigestible,
Anna Maria?" inquired Samuel Whiskers.
Anna Maria said she thought that it was
of no consequence; but she wished that Tom
Kitten would hold his head still, as it
disarranged the pastry. She laid hold of his
ears.
Tom Kitten bit and spat, and mewed and
wriggled; and the rolling-pin went roly-
poly, roly; roly, poly, roly. The rats each
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: esteem.
"I fancy," said the painter, "that the uniform is that of a naval
officer."
Yes," she said, "that of a captain in command of a vessel.
Monsieur de Rouville--my husband--died at Batavia in consequence
of a wound received in a fight with an English ship they fell in
with off the Asiatic coast. He commanded a frigate of fifty-six
guns and the Revenge carried ninety-six. The struggle was very
unequal, but he defended his ship so bravely that he held out
till nightfall and got away. When I came back to France Bonaparte
was not yet in power, and I was refused a pension. When I applied
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