| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: It grunted and splashed and waded in
And the deepest place but reached its chin.
The water gurgled with tender glee
And the mud churned up in it turbidly.
The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of floating cloud like lace.
DOCTORS
EVERY night I lie awake
And every day I lie abed
And hear the doctors, Pain and Death,
Conferring at my head.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the murder of Reginald Paynter.
Jonas Prim was too busy and too worried to pay any
attention to the Tribune or its editor. He already had
the best operative that the best detective agency in the
nearest metropolis could furnish. The man had come to
Oakdale, learned all that was to be learned there, and
forthwith departed.
This, then, will be about all concerning Oakdale for
the present. We must leave her to bury her own dead.
The sudden pressure of the knife point against the
breast of the Oskaloosa Kid awakened the youth with
The Oakdale Affair |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: street. Where am I to go?
The answer to that question has long been ready in my brain. To
Katya.
III
As a rule she is lying on the sofa or in a lounge-chair reading.
Seeing me, she raises her head languidly, sits up, and shakes
hands.
"You are always lying down," I say, after pausing and taking
breath. "That's not good for you. You ought to occupy yourself
with something."
"What?"
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