| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: image on the wall opposite. Only the shadows of the trees, flourishing
in the wind, made obeisance on the wall, and for a moment darkened the
pool in which light reflected itself; or birds, flying, made a soft
spot flutter slowly across the bedroom floor.
So loveliness reigned and stillness, and together made the shape of
loveliness itself, a form from which life had parted; solitary like a
pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so
quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its
solitude, though once seen. Loveliness and stillness clasped hands in
the bedroom, and among the shrouded jugs and sheeted chairs even the
prying of the wind, and the soft nose of the clammy sea airs, rubbing,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: bedrooms, and all the electric lights were turned off at nine-
thirty.
At ten o'clock I took my candle and went to Mr. Pierce's sitting-
room door. I didn't think they'd stand much more and I wanted to
tell him so. Nobody answered and I opened the door. He was
asleep, face down on the hearth-rug in front of the fire. His
candle was lighted on the floor beside him and near it lay a
newspaper cutting crumpled in a ball. I picked it up. It was a
list of the bridal party for Miss Patty's wedding.
I dropped it where I found it and went out and knocked again
loudly. He wakened after a minute and came to the door with the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Impossible!"
"No, lad. I have been secretary to a prince, and learnt to
interpret cipher, and to watch every pen-stroke; and, young as I
am, I think that I am not easily deceived. Would God I were! Come
on, lad; and strike no man hastily, lest thou cut off thine own
flesh."
So forth the two went, along the park to the eastward, and past the
head of the little wood-embosomed fishing-town, a steep stair of
houses clinging to the cliff far below them, the bright slate roofs
and white walls glittering in the moonlight; and on some half-mile
farther, along the steep hill-side, fenced with oak wood down to
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