| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: a somnambulist awakened suddenly, and there was now some meaning in
his stare; a sort of alarmed speculation. He opened his mouth
slowly. Flora struck in with forced gaiety. "You would never,
guess."
He waited, still more startled and suspicious. "Guess! Why don't
you tell me?"
He uncrossed his arms and leaned forward towards her. She got hold
of one of his hands. "You must know first . . . " She paused, made
an effort: "I am married, papa."
For a moment they kept perfectly still in that cab rolling on at a
steady jog-trot through a narrow city street full of bustle.
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: Outside in the cool night air I recovered myself, sufficiently at
any rate to be able to think, and saw at once that the thing was
an illusion for which Zikali had prepared my mind very carefully
by means of the young witch-doctoress, Nombe. He knew well
enough that this remarkable woman, Mameena, had made a deep
impression on me nearly a quarter of a century before, as she had
done upon other men with whom she had been associated. Therefore
it was probable that she would always be present to my thought,
since whatever a man forgets, he remembers the women who have
shown him favour, true or false, for Nature has decreed it thus.
Moreover, this was one to be remembered for herself, since she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: GUIDO
Do you close that against me?
DUCHESS
Alas! my lord,
I have it not: the first day that I saw you
I let you take my heart away from me;
Unwilling thief, that without meaning it
Did break into my fenced treasury
And filch my jewel from it! O strange theft,
Which made you richer though you knew it not,
And left me poorer, and yet glad of it!
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