| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: rounded, eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and
truth.
Platon Karataev knew nothing by heart except his prayers. When he
began to speak he seemed not to know how he would conclude.
Sometimes Pierre, struck by the meaning of his words, would ask
him to repeat them, but Platon could never recall what he had said a
moment before, just as he never could repeat to Pierre the words of
his favorite song: native and birch tree and my heart is sick occurred
in it, but when spoken and not sung, no meaning could be got out of
it. He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart
from their context. Every word and action of his was the manifestation
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: quivering in momentary expectation of death.
Other heads, thoroughly sun-dried and smoke-cured, were found in
abundance, but, with two exceptions, they were the heads of blacks.
So this was the manner of hunting that went on in the dark and evil
forest, Sheldon thought, as he regarded them. The atmosphere of
the place was sickening, yet he could not forbear to pause before
one of Binu Charley's finds.
"Me savvee black Mary, me savvee white Mary," quoth Binu Charley.
"Me no savvee that fella Mary. What name belong him?"
Sheldon looked. Ancient and withered, blackened by many years of
the smoke of the devil-devil house, nevertheless the shrunken,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born
in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and
taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an
independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind
of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and
being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy
herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul,
now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue.
The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where
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