| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: conception and send him down somewhere off Cape Horn.
Then the dinner-gong sounded.
"Come up to my room afterwards," said Frau Fischer. "There is still much
that I must ask you."
She squeezed my hand, but I did not squeeze back.
5. FRAU BRECHENMACHER ATTENDS A WEDDING.
Getting ready was a terrible business. After supper Frau Brechenmacher
packed four of the five babies to bed, allowing Rosa to stay with her and
help to polish the buttons of Herr Brechenmacher's uniform. Then she ran
over his best shirt with a hot iron, polished his boots, and put a stitch
or two into his black satin necktie.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: you so common that I would not care to associate with you. To be
individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way
to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad,
therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition.
Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one
another's society; so let us be content."
"There is some truth in that speech," remarked Toto reflectively.
"But how about my lost growl?"
"The growl is of importance only to you," responded the Lion, "so it
is your business to worry over the loss, not ours. If you love us, do
not afflict your burdens on us; be unhappy all by yourself."
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: condemn his conduct, have remembered all that was true, forgotten
all that was unjust in Seraphina's onslaught; and by half an hour
after would have fallen into that state of mind in which a Catholic
flees to the confessional and a sot takes refuge with the bottle.
Two matters of detail preserved his spirits. For, first, he had
still an infinity of business to transact; and to transact business,
for a man of Otto's neglectful and procrastinating habits, is the
best anodyne for conscience. All afternoon he was hard at it with
the Chancellor, reading, dictating, signing, and despatching papers;
and this kept him in a glow of self-approval. But, secondly, his
vanity was still alarmed; he had failed to get the money; to-morrow
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