| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: with a kind of luminous rosiness all about her. She sat down beside me,
turned to me with a soft sigh and said, `Now they are all gone, and I
can kiss you as much as I like.'
I used to wish I could have this flattering dream about Antonia,
but I never did.
XIII
I NOTICED ONE AFTERNOON that grandmother had been crying.
Her feet seemed to drag as she moved about the house, and I
got up from the table where I was studying and went to her,
asking if she didn't feel well, and if I couldn't help her
with her work.
My Antonia |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: artificers. This circumstance confirmed the writer's opinion
with regard to the propriety of connecting large bells to be
rung with machinery in the lighthouse, to be tolled day and
night during the continuance of foggy weather.
[Thursday, 23rd June]
The boats landed this evening, when the artificers had
again two hours' work. The weather still continuing very
thick and foggy, more difficulty was experienced in getting on
board of the vessels to-night than had occurred on any
previous occasion, owing to a light breeze of wind which
carried the sound of the bell, and the other signals made on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: About ten years ago this gentleman had the good fortune to be made entirely
easy upon that score,--it being just so long since he left his parish,--and
the whole world at the same time behind him,--and stands accountable to a
Judge of whom he will have no cause to complain.
But there is a fatality attends the actions of some men: Order them as
they will, they pass thro' a certain medium, which so twists and refracts
them from their true directions--that, with all the titles to praise which
a rectitude of heart can give, the doers of them are nevertheless forced to
live and die without it.
Of the truth of which, this gentleman was a painful example.--But to know
by what means this came to pass,--and to make that knowledge of use to you,
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