| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: advocate began another story about a swindle, and all sorts of
crimes committed by persons in high places, who, instead of being
in prison, sat on presidential chairs in all sorts of Government
institutions. These tales, of which the advocate seemed to have
an unending supply, gave him much pleasure, showing as they did,
with perfect clearness, that his means of getting money were
quite just and innocent compared to the means which the highest
officials in Petersburg made use of. The advocate was therefore
surprised when Nekhludoff took an isvostchik before hearing the
end of the story, said good-bye, and left him. Nekhludoff felt
very sad. It was chiefly the rejection of the appeal by the
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: black silk hood rolled back from her face, the strings falling
over her broad shoulders, revealing a red silk scarf loosely wound
about her throat, the two ends tucked in her bosom. Her feet were
shod in thick-soled shoes laced around her well-turned ankles, and
her hands were covered by buckskin gauntlets creased with wear.
From the outside breast-pocket of her ulster protruded a
time-book, from which dangled a pencil fastened to a hempen
string. Every movement indicated great physical strength, perfect
health, and a thorough control of herself and her surroundings.
Coupled with this was a dignity and repose unmistakable to those
who have watched the handling of large bodies of workingmen by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: her house? You may say that he was unattractive to her, and that,
as she was splendidly kept by the duke, she would be more likely
to choose a man who was attractive to her, if she were to take
another lover. If so, why did she not choose Gaston, who was
rich, witty, and charming, and why did she care for me, whom she
had thought so ridiculous the first time she had seen me?
It is true that there are events of a moment which tell more than
the courtship of a year. Of those who were at the supper, I was
the only one who had been concerned at her leaving the table. I
had followed her, I had been so affected as to be unable to hide
it from her, I had wept as I kissed her hand. This circumstance,
Camille |
