| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree.
Monday
The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have
no objections. Says it is to call it by when I want it to come.
I said it was superfluous, then. The word evidently raised me in
its respect; and indeed it is a large, good word, and will bear
repetition. It says it is not an It, it is a She. This is probably
doubtful; yet it is all one to me; what she is were nothing to me
if she would but go by herself and not talk.
Tuesday
She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Broke ev'ry bond of nature and of truth,
And murder'd, for his wealth, the royal youth.
O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?
Now, when my soul had shaken off her fears,
I call my father and the Trojan peers;
Relate the prodigies of Heav'n, require
What he commands, and their advice desire.
All vote to leave that execrable shore,
Polluted with the blood of Polydore;
But, ere we sail, his fun'ral rites prepare,
Aeneid |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: everything that had opened out to him, he felt the need to recover
himself as he could only do in solitude. Yet he lingered -
lingered to see if she had no compromise to express, no attenuation
to propose. But he only met her great lamenting eyes, in which
indeed he read that she was as sorry for him as for any one else.
This made him say: "At least, in any case, I may see you here."
"Oh yes, come if you like. But I don't think it will do."
He looked round the room once more, knowing how little he was sure
it would do. He felt also stricken and more and more cold, and his
chill was like an ague in which he had to make an effort not to
shake. Then he made doleful reply: "I must try on my side - if
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