| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: CHAPTER IX
THE visit of Bertrade de Montfort with her friend
Mary de Stutevill was drawing to a close. Three weeks
had passed since Roger de Conde had ridden out
from the portals of Stutevill and many times the hand-
some young knight's name had been on the lips of his
fair hostess and her fairer friend.
Today the two girls roamed slowly through the gar-
dens of the great court, their arms about each other's
waists, pouring the last confidences into each other's
ears, for tomorrow Bertrade had elected to return to
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: most solemn part of the whole ceremony, is all that
remains now to perpetuate the memory of his name.
"His courtship had lasted some time--ever since
he got his precarious footing in the community. It
began by his buying for Amy Foster a green satin
ribbon in Darnford. This was what you did in his
country. You bought a ribbon at a Jew's stall on
a fair-day. I don't suppose the girl knew what to
do with it, but he seemed to think that his honoura-
ble intentions could not be mistaken.
"It was only when he declared his purpose to
Amy Foster |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: visitations sublime. You thought of a thousand things. You think
of more and more all the while. That's what makes you, if you'll
pardon my familiarity, so respectable. At a time when so many
people are spent you come into your second wind. But, thank God,
all the same, you're better! Thank God, too, you're not, as you
were telling me yesterday, 'successful.' If YOU weren't a failure
what would be the use of trying? That's my one reserve on the
subject of your recovery - that it makes you 'score,' as the
newspapers say. It looks well in the newspapers, and almost
anything that does that's horrible. 'We are happy to announce that
Mr. Paraday, the celebrated author, is again in the enjoyment of
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