| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: Evil One, the enemy of all mankind, confounded me. I began to
notice that any day I didn't go to see her, I seemed out of sorts
and dull. And I'd be continually making up something that I must
see her about: 'It's high time,' I'd say to myself, 'to put the
double windows in for the winter,' and the whole day I'd idle
away over at her place putting in the windows and take good care
to leave a couple of them over for the next day too.
" 'I ought to count over Vasya's pigeons, to see none of them
have strayed,' and so on. I used always to be talking to her
across the fence, and in the end I made a little gate in the
fence so as not to have to go so far round. From womankind comes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: of things. I am the meaning. I wished
to find a warrant for being. I need no
warrant for being, and no word of sanction
upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
It is my eyes which see, and the sight of
my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is
my ears which hear, and the hearing of my
ears gives its song to the world. It is my
mind which thinks, and the judgement of
my mind is the only searchlight that can
find the truth. It is my will which chooses,
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: and went after Mr. Gobbler himself."
"Is that all? Well, that is nothing to get alarmed about, is it? I actually
had a feeling of fear, or a presentiment, we might say."
They beached the canoe and spread out the lunch in the shade near the spring.
Alfred threw himself at length upon the grass and Betty sat leaning against
the tree. She took a biscuit in one hand, a pickle in the other, and began to
chat volubly to Alfred of her school life, and of Philadelphia, and the
friends she had made there. At length, remarking his abstraction, she said:
"You are not listening to me."
"I beg your pardon. My thoughts did wander. I was thinking of my mother.
Something about you reminds me of her. I do not know what, unless it is that
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