| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: and drew the curtains.
Little Red-Cap, however, had been running about picking flowers, and
when she had gathered so many that she could carry no more, she
remembered her grandmother, and set out on the way to her.
She was surprised to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she
went into the room, she had such a strange feeling that she said to
herself: 'Oh dear! how uneasy I feel today, and at other times I like
being with grandmother so much.' She called out: 'Good morning,' but
received no answer; so she went to the bed and drew back the curtains.
There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and
looking very strange.
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: with a north wind blowing, because the snow does not melt immediately;
but if the wind be mild with gleams of sunshine, they will not last
long, because the snow is quickly thawed. When it snows steadily and
without intermission there is nothing to be done; the tracks will be
covered up. Nor, again, if there be a strong wind blowing, which will
whirl and drift the snow about and obliterate the tracks. It will not
do to take the hounds into the field in that case;[1] since owing to
excessive frost the snow will blister[2] the feet and noses of the
dogs and destroy the hare's scent. Then is the time for the sportsman
to take the haye nets and set off with a comrade up to the hills, and
leave the cultivated lands behind; and when he has got upon the tracks
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: signifying that a moon of some age was shining above its arch.
The two white gates were distinct, and the white balls on the
pillars, and the puddles and damp ruts left by the recent rain,
had a cold, corpse-eyed luminousness. She entered by the lower
gate, and crossed the quadrangle to the wing wherein the
apartments that had been hers since her marriage were situate,
till she stood under a window which, if her husband were in the
house, gave light to his bedchamber.
She faltered, and paused with her hand on her heart, in spite of
herself. Could she call to her presence the very cause of all her
foregoing troubles? Alas!--old Jones was seven miles off; Giles
The Woodlanders |
