| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: communication.
`And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some
further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness.
Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the
neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on
the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were
small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins
ran to a point. The eyes were large and mild; and--this may
seem egotism on my part--I fancied even that there was a
certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.
`As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "Your aunt isn't. She might help your mother."
"She does--in her own way."
"Exactly--that's the rich relation all over! You may be miserable
in any way you like, but if you're to be happy you've got to be so
in her way--and in her old gowns."
"I could be very happy in Aunt Virginia's old gowns," Miss Trent
interposed.
"Abroad, you mean?"
"I mean wherever I felt that I was helping. And my going abroad
will help."
"Of course--I see that. And I see your considerateness in putting
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: Raoul. I intrust to you certain papers which are at Blois;
and in two months and a half, if you do not hear of us, take
possession of them.
"Embrace, with all your heart, the vicomte, for your
devoted, friend,
"ATHOS."
"I believe, by Heaven," said D'Artagnan, "that I shall
embrace him, since he's upon our road; and if he is so
unfortunate as to lose our dear Athos, from that very day he
becomes my son."
"And I," said Porthos, "shall make him my sole heir."
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