| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: Ov'ella passa, ogni uom ver lei si gira,
E cui saluta fa tremar lo core.
Sicche, bassando il viso, tutto smore,
E d'ogni suo difetto allor sospira:
Fuggon dinanzi a lei Superbia ed Ira:
Aiutatemi, donne, a farle onore.
Ogni dolcezza, ogni pensiero umile
Nasee nel core a chi parlar la sente;
Ond' e beato chi prima la vide.
Quel ch'ella par quand' un poco sorride,
Non si pub dicer, ne tener a mente,
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: at Irkutsk. She wrote and told him she was starting. She
had barely enough money for this long journey, and yet
she did not hesitate to undertake it. She would do what she
could. God would do the rest.
CHAPTER IX
DAY AND NIGHT IN A TARANTASS
THE next day, the 19th of July, the Caucasus reached
Perm, the last place at which she touched on the Kama.
The government of which Perm is the capital is one of
the largest in the Russian Empire, and, extending over the
Ural Mountains, encroaches on Siberian territory. Marble
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: "He is going to tell you," she said to Cleggett, including the
Captain himself in her flashing look and her remark, "he is going
to tell you that you really should get rid of me and my boxes at
once--I can see it in his face!"
Captain Abernethy stopped short at this, and stared. It was
precisely what he HAD planned to say after drawing Cleggett
discreetly aside. But it is rather startling to have one's
thoughts read in this manner.
He frowned at the lady. She smiled at him. The smile seemed to
say to the Cap'n: "You ridiculous old dear, you! You KNOW
that's what you were going to advise, so why deny it? I've found
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