| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: and the spire of the Assembly Hall, stood deployed
against the sky with the colourless precision of
engraving. An open outlook is to be desired from a
churchyard, and a sight of the sky and some of the
world's beauty relieves a mind from morbid thoughts.
I shall never forget one visit. It was a grey,
dropping day; the grass was strung with rain-drops; and
the people in the houses kept hanging out their shirts
and petticoats and angrily taking them in again, as the
weather turned from wet to fair and back again. A grave-
digger, and a friend of his, a gardener from the country,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: her arm.
When all was over, the lights up, the people clapping,
he came to himself and looked at his watch. His train was gone.
"I s'll have to walk home!" he said.
Clara looked at him.
"It is too late?" she asked.
He nodded. Then he helped her on with her coat.
"I love you! You look beautiful in that dress," he murmured
over her shoulder, among the throng of bustling people.
She remained quiet. Together they went out of the theatre.
He saw the cabs waiting, the people passing. It seemed he met
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: ventre-saint-gris! corboeuf! or anything to rouse one."
"Was that the reason why you quitted the service, monsieur
le chevalier?"
"Yes."
"But you yourself, M. d'Artagnan, are throwing the handle
after the axe; you will not make a fortune."
"Who? I?" replied D'Artagnan, in a careless tone; "I am
settled -- I had some family property."
Raoul looked at him. The poverty of D'Artagnan was
proverbial. A Gascon, he exceeded in ill-luck all the
gasconnades of France and Navarre; Raoul had a hundred times
Ten Years Later |
