| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: JULIA.
Ah me, I cannot bring my troubled mind
To wish well to that Adam, our first parent,
Who by his sin lost Paradise for us,
And brought such ills upon us.
VALDESSO.
We ourselves,
When we commit a sin, lose Paradise,
As much as he did. Let us think of this,
And how we may regain it.
JULIA.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: more like the clods among which he laboured. It was as though some
red-hot instrument had touched for a moment those delicate
fibers of the brain which respond to acute pain or pleasure, in
which lies the power of exquisite sensation, and had seared them
quite away. It is a painful thing to watch the light die out of
the eyes of those Norsemen, leaving an expression of impenetrable
sadness, quite passive, quite hopeless, a shadow that is never
lifted. With some this change comes almost at once, in the first
bitterness of homesickness, with others it comes more slowly,
according to the time it takes each man's heart to die.
Oh, those poor Northmen of the Divide! They are dead many a
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: this important province. It is at Omsk that the Governor-
General of the province and the official world reside. But
Tomsk is the most considerable town of that territory. The
country being rich, the town is so likewise, for it is in the
center of fruitful mines. In the luxury of its houses, its
arrangements, and its equipages, it might rival the greatest
European capitals. It is a city of millionaires, enriched by
the spade and pickax, and though it has not the honor of
being the residence of the Czar's representative, it can boast
of including in the first rank of its notables the chief of the
merchants of the town, the principal grantees of the imperial
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