| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: month, the bliss of the home unfolded like a rose of a
thousand leaves. When a child came to them, a strong,
beautiful boy, worthy to be the heir of such a house, the
heart of the rose was filled with overflowing fragrance.
Happiness was heaped upon happiness. Every wish brought its
own accomplishment. Wealth, honour, beauty, peace, love--it
was an abundance of felicity so great that the soul of Hermas
could hardly contain it.
Strangely enough, it began to press upon him, to trouble
him with the very excess of joy. He felt as if there were
something yet needed to complete and secure it all. There was an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: towards heaven to demand something. Next there came scattered cabins
built of earth, branches, and bulrush-hurdles, and all of a conical
shape. These dwellings, which became constantly denser as the road
ascended towards the Suffet's gardens, were irregularly separated from
one another by little pebble walls, trenches of spring water, ropes of
esparto-grass, and nopal hedges. But Hamilcar's eyes were fastened on
a great tower, the three storys of which formed three monster
cylinders--the first being built of stone, the second of brick, and
the third all of cedar--supporting a copper cupola upon twenty-four
pillars of juniper, from which slender interlacing chains of brass
hung down after the manner of garlands. This lofty edifice overlooked
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
