| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the cliff-crest. Before me spread a rough mesa, liberally
sprinkled with large boulders. There was no village in
sight nor any living creature.
I drew myself to level ground and stood erect. A few
trees grew among the boulders. Very carefully I ad-
vanced from tree to tree and boulder to boulder toward
the inland end of the mesa. I stopped often to listen
and look cautiously about me in every direction.
How I wished that I had my revolvers and rifle! I
would not have to worm my way like a scared cat
toward Hooja's village, nor did I relish doing so now; but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: tragedian, was not for her in this world. As the devoted wife of
a man who worshiped her, she felt she would take her place with a
certain dignity in the world of reality, closing the portals
forever behind her upon the realm of romance and dreams.
But it was not long before the tragedian had gone to join the
cavalry officer and the engaged young man and a few others; and
Edna found herself face to face with the realities. She grew fond
of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that
no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her
affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She
Awakening & Selected Short Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: again. They sat on logs before the camp-fire, their stockinged feet
stretched out to the blaze, and the puffs of smoke rose from their
lips like tiny salutes to the comfortable flame, or like incense
burned upon the altar of gratitude and contentment.
Patrick, I noticed about this time, liked to get on the leeward side
of as many pipes as possible, and as near as he could to the
smokers. He said that this kept away the mosquitoes. There he
would sit, with the smoke drifting full in his face, both hands in
his pockets, talking about Quebec, and debating the comparative
merits of a boy or a girl as an addition to his household.
But the great trial of his virtue was yet to come. The main object
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