| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: three vacant cabins from among which to select a dwelling-place.
He chose to occupy the most remote of all, which Carmen furnished
for him with a cool moss bed and some necessary
furniture,--including a big wooden rocking-chair. It seemed to
him very comfortable thus. He took his meals with the family,
spent most of the day in his own quarters, spoke very little, and
lived so unobtrusively and inconspicuously that his presence in
the settlement was felt scarcely more than that of some dumb
creature,--some domestic animal,--some humble pet whose relation
to the family is only fully comprehended after it has failed to
appear for several days in its accustomed place of patient
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: garden walk. Over all this map hung silence like a harmony,
tremendous yet serene.
"How beautiful! how I love it!" whispered the girl" But, oh, how
big it is!" And she leaned against her lover for an instant. It
was her spirit seeking shelter. To-day, this vast beauty, this
primal calm, had in it for her something almost of dread. The
small, comfortable, green hills of home rose before her. She
closed her eyes and saw Vermont. a village street, and the
post-office, and Ivy covering an old front door, and her mother
picking some yellow roses from a bush.
At a sound, her eyes quickly opened; and here was her lover
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: narrow realm. Eunice was unpacking some loaves of bread and paper
bags of crackers; and Miss Ringtop, smiling through her ropy curls,
as much as to say, `You see, _I_ also can perform the coarser tasks
of life!' occupied herself with plates and cups. We men,
therefore, walked out to the garden, which we found in a promising
condition. The usual vegetables had been planted and were
growing finely, for the season was yet scarcely warm enough
for the weeds to make much headway. Radishes, young onions, and
lettuce formed our contribution to the table. The Shelldrakes, I
should explain, had not yet advanced to the antediluvian point, in
diet: nor, indeed, had either Eunice or myself. We acknowledged
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