| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: To charm it with smiles and soap!
"For the Snark's a peculiar creature, that won't
Be caught in a commonplace way.
Do all that you know, and try all that you don't:
Not a chance must be wasted to-day!
"For England expects--I forbear to proceed:
'Tis a maxim tremendous, but trite:
And you'd best be unpacking the things that you need
To rig yourselves out for the fight."
Then the Banker endorsed a blank check (which he crossed),
And changed his loose silver for notes.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: Was it Right?--Was it Wrong?
A woman sat at her desk in the corner of a room; behind her a fire burnt
brightly.
Presently a servant came in and gave her a card.
"Say I am busy and can see no one now. I have to finish this article by
two o'clock."
The servant came back. The caller said she would only keep her a moment:
it was necessary she should see her.
The woman rose from her desk. "Tell the boy to wait. Ask the lady to come
in."
A young woman in a silk dress, with a cloak reaching to her feet, entered.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: Chapter 21
From the moment when Alexey Alexandrovitch understood from MU his
interviews with Betsy and with Stepan Arkadyevitch that all that
was expected of him was to leave his wife in peace, without
burdening her with his presence, and that his wife herself
desired this, he felt so distraught that he could come to no
decision of himself; he did not know himself what he wanted now,
and putting himself in the hands of those who were so pleased to
interest themselves in his affairs, he met everything with
unqualified assent. It was only when Anna had left his house, and
the English governess sent to ask him whether she should dine
Anna Karenina |
