| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: tone of life; which, so far as my medical training bore me,
was restoring the dead to life.
But such was not the purpose of my visit. I was come to remove from
the house of Dr. Fu-Manchu the living chain which bound Karamaneh to him.
The boy alive and free, the Doctor's hold upon the slave girl would be broken.
My lovely companion, her hands convulsively clasped, knelt and devoured
with her eyes the face of the boy who was passing through the most
amazing physiological change in the history of therapeutics.
The peculiar perfume which she wore--which seemed to be a part of her--
which always I associated with her--was faintly perceptible.
Karamaneh was breathing rapidly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: is waiting to receive you... But it will be necessary that we first invest
you... with the appropriate garments of ceremony." [2]
Having thus spoken, the attendants rose together, and proceeded to an
alcove containing a great chest of gold lacquer. They opened the chest, and
took from it various roes and girdles of rich material, and a kamuri, or
regal headdress. With these they attired Akinosuke as befitted a princely
bridegroom; and he was then conducted to the presence-room, where he saw
the Kokuo of Tokoyo seated upon the daiza, [3] wearing a high black cap of
state, and robed in robes of yellow silk. Before the daiza, to left and
right, a multitude of dignitaries sat in rank, motionless and splendid as
images in a temple; and Akinosuke, advancing into their midst, saluted the
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: door,
and, hearing no answer, entered without noise. Harold was
asleep,
his bare arm thrown above his head, and his eager face relaxed in
peace.
His father looked at him a moment with strangely shining eyes,
and then tiptoed quietly to the writing-desk, found a pencil and
a sheet of paper, and wrote rapidly:
"My dear boy, here is what you asked me for; do what you like
with it,
and ask for more if you need it. If you are still thinking of
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