| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: by, just as some men, going to work, drew out the stiff, cold
corpse--Let me not recal the horrid moment!--I recognized her pale
visage; I listened to the tale told by the spectators, and my heart
did not burst. I thought of my own state, and wondered how I could
be such a monster!--I worked hard; and, returning home, I was
attacked by a fever. I suffered both in body and mind. I determined
not to live with the wretch. But he did not try me; he left the
neighbourhood. I once more returned to the wash-tub.
"Still this state, miserable as it was, admitted of aggravation.
Lifting one day a heavy load, a tub fell against my shin, and gave
me great pain. I did not pay much attention to the hurt, till it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: America than he.
The failure of the wireless did not appear as momentous to
me as to him, which is not unnatural, since it is but human
to feel that when our own little cog slips, the entire
universe must necessarily be put out of gear. I knew that
if this storm were destined to blow us across thirty, or
send us to the bottom of the ocean, no help could reach us
in time to prevent it. I had ordered the message sent
solely because regulations required it, and not with any
particular hope that we could benefit by it in our present
extremity.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: "Four hundred roubles!" he exclaimed, hardly
believing his eyes. "What does it mean?"
The envelope also contained a badly-spelt letter,
addressed to Eugene Mihailovich. "It is said in
the Gospels," ran the letter, " do good for evil.
You have done me much harm; and in the coupon
case you made me wrong the peasants greatly.
But I have pity for you. Here are four hundred
notes. Take them, and remember your porter
Vassily."
"Very extraordinary!" said Eugene Mihailo-
The Forged Coupon |
