| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: and her sleeves were rolled up above her elbows. She seemed
as oblivious of her appearance, however, as if she had been called
out of her bed by a midnight alarm of fire, and she had forgotten,
too, her reserve and her composure; she talked to them quite
familiarly as if she had nursed them and held them naked on her knee.
She assured them over and over again that it was their duty to eat.
The afternoon, being thus shortened, passed more quickly than
they expected. Once Mrs. Flushing opened the door, but on seeing
them shut it again quickly; once Helen came down to fetch something,
but she stopped as she left the room to look at a letter addressed
to her. She stood for a moment turning it over, and the extraordinary
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: figures so largely in a tale, yet it is always important.
The author must know his countryside, whether real or
imaginary, like his hand; the distances, the points of the
compass, the place of the sun's rising, the behaviour of the
moon, should all be beyond cavil. And how troublesome the
moon is! I have come to grief over the moon in PRINCE OTTO,
and so soon as that was pointed out to me, adopted a
precaution which I recommend to other men - I never write now
without an almanack. With an almanack, and the map of the
country, and the plan of every house, either actually plotted
on paper or already and immediately apprehended in the mind,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: with my investigation.
"A gentle and confiding nature, characterized by a penchant for
escapade, is denoted by the joy-wheel at the base of Halley's
Comet. And so we come to the life-belt. This- my word, this
is all right! Unrivalled for resistance to damp and wear, will
last three to six times as long as ordinary paint- I mean life-
of extraordinary durability. Now for the heart-line. The expert
will here descry a curious mixture of-
Further investigation she cut short by so determined an attempt
at withdrawal that I let her hand go.
"Oughtn't we to be beginning again?"
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