| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: bent upon its own destruction.
EPILOGUE
Professor Wilson had been living in London
for six years and he was just back from a visit
to America. One afternoon, soon after his
return, he put on his frock-coat and drove in
a hansom to pay a call upon Hilda Burgoyne,
who still lived at her old number, off Bedford
Square. He and Miss Burgoyne had been fast
friends for a long time. He had first noticed
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: salvation.
The time had come to say good-bye for the last time. Peace asked
his weeping relatives whether they had anything more that they
wished to ask him. Mrs. Peace reminded him that he had promised
to pray with them at the last. Peace, ever ready, knelt with
them and prayed for half an hour. He then shook hands with them,
prayed for and blessed each one singly, and himself gave way to
tears as they left his presence. To his wife as she departed
Peace gave a funeral card of his own designing. It ran:
In
Memory
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: turned the corner which led to the building that held the
Post. I had saved that for the last.
"I hope that heaven is not a place of golden streets,
and twanging harps and angel choruses," I said, softly.
"Little, nervous, slangy, restless Blackie, how bored and
ill at ease he would be in such a heaven! How lonely,
without his old black pipe, and his checked waistcoats,
and his diamonds, and his sporting extra. Oh, I hope
they have all those comforting, everyday things up there,
for Blackie's sake."
"How you grew to understand him in that short year,"
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