| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: looking neither to his right hand nor his left, lest Love or Pity
should seduce him out of his road.
Peace be to them! if it is to be found; but heaven itself, were it
possible to get there with such tempers, would want objects to give
it; every gentle spirit would come flying upon the wings of Love to
hail their arrival. - Nothing would the souls of Smelfungus and
Mundungus hear of, but fresh anthems of joy, fresh raptures of
love, and fresh congratulations of their common felicity. - I
heartily pity them; they have brought up no faculties for this
work; and, were the happiest mansion in heaven to be allotted to
Smelfungus and Mundungus, they would be so far from being happy,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: "You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it's enough to mention
the error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m.,
this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service."
Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his left hand, put it on
his head with an automatic motion, and went off without a word.
Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new
master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor,
James Forster, departing in his turn. Passepartout remained
alone in the house in Saville Row.
Chapter II
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL
Around the World in 80 Days |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: into a gallop, lest they should see we fear them, and give chase
--keep him only at the full trot)--but yet, though I fear them
not, I would we were well rid of them, and that rather by policy
than by violence. Could we once reach the party before us, we
may herd among them, and pass unobserved, unless Varney be really
come in express pursuit of us, and then, happy man be his dole!"
While he thus spoke, he alternately urged and restrained his
horse, desirous to maintain the fleetest pace that was consistent
with the idea of an ordinary journey on the road, but to avoid
such rapidity of movement as might give rise to suspicion that
they were flying.
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