| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: of Fleeming have a fine note of their own. The bringing up of the
boys he deigned to approve of: 'FAST SO GUT WIE EIN BAUER,' was
his trenchant criticism. The attention and courtly respect with
which Fleeming surrounded his wife, was something of a puzzle to
the philosophic gillie; he announced in the village that Mrs.
Jenkin - DIE SILBERNE FRAU, as the folk had prettily named her from
some silver ornaments - was a 'GEBORENE GRAFIN' who had married
beneath her; and when Fleeming explained what he called the English
theory (though indeed it was quite his own) of married relations,
Joseph, admiring but unconvinced, avowed it was 'GAR SCHON.'
Joseph's cousin, Walpurga Moser, to an orchestra of clarionet and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: uttermost recesses of his little brain something was stirring--
something which the sight and smell of the great bull had aroused.
The outward manifestation of the germinating idea was one of
bestial rage; but the inner sensations were pleasurable in
the extreme. The scent of the great bull and the sight of his huge
and hairy figure had wakened in the heart of Akut a longing for
the companionship of his own kind. So Korak was not alone
undergoing a change.
And Meriem? She was a woman. It is woman's divine right
to love. Always she had loved Korak. He was her big brother.
Meriem alone underwent no change. She was still happy in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: fiance. They were already poor at that time and later on he had
heard that she was living in a small provincial town and was very
poor.
'Why am I thinking about her?' he asked himself, but he could not
cease doing so. 'Where is she? How is she getting on? Is she
still as unhappy as she was then when she had to show us how to
swim on the floor? But why should I think about her? What am I
doing? I must put an end to myself.'
And again he felt afraid, and again, to escape from that thought,
he went on thinking about Pashenka.
So he lay for a long time, thinking now of his unavoidable end
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