The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: American drama: tall and thin, with high,
hitching shoulders and a small head glistening
with closely brushed yellow hair. He spoke
with an extreme Oxford accent, and when he was
talking well, his face sometimes wore the rapt
expression of a very emotional man listening
to music. Mainhall liked Alexander because
he was an engineer. He had preconceived
ideas about everything, and his idea about
Americans was that they should be engineers
or mechanics. He hated them when they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: lad was too timid to hint at the nature of his feelings, I
had soon divined and begun to share them. For some days I
pondered on the odd situation created for me by the
bashfulness of my admirer; and at length, perceiving that he
began, in his distress, rather to avoid than seek my company,
I determined to take the matter into my own hands. Finding
him alone in a retired part of the rectory garden, I told him
that I had divined his amiable secret, that I knew with what
disfavour our union was sure to be regarded; and that, under
the circumstances, I was prepared to flee with him at once.
Poor John was literally paralysed with joy; such was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: detract from tenderness. This combination of deep feeling with the
lightness of youth added an enchanting grace at this moment to
Francesca's charms. This is the key to her character; she laughs and
she is touched; she becomes enthusiastic, and returns to arch raillery
with a readiness, a facility, which makes her the charming and
exquisite creature she is, and for which her reputation is known
outside Italy. Under the graces of a woman she conceals vast learning,
thanks to the excessively monotonous and almost monastic life she led
in the castle of the old Colonnas.
This rich heiress was at first intended for the cloister, being the
fourth child of Prince and Princess Colonna; but the death of her two
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