| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Frisby House, for that was the name of the hotel, was a
place of fallen fortunes, like the town. It was now given up
to labourers, and partly ruinous. At dinner there was the
ordinary display of what is called in the west a TWO-BIT
HOUSE: the tablecloth checked red and white, the plague of
flies, the wire hencoops over the dishes, the great variety
and invariable vileness of the food and the rough coatless
men devoting it in silence. In our bedroom, the stove would
not burn, though it would smoke; and while one window would
not open, the other would not shut. There was a view on a
bit of empty road, a few dark houses, a donkey wandering with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: master's friends. The biggest lion licked the feet of
Eurylochus; and every other lion, and every wolf and tiger,
singled out one of his two and twenty followers, whom the beast
fondled as if he loved him better than a beef bone.
But, for all that, Eurylochus imagined that he saw something
fierce and savage in their eyes; nor would he have been
surprised, at any moment, to feel the big lion's terrible
claws, or to see each of the tigers make a deadly spring,
or each wolf leap at the throat of the man whom he had fondled.
Their mildness seemed unreal, and a mere freak; but their
savage nature was as true as their teeth and claws.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: his way to where the wagon was standing." "And my kumushka
[sponsor]," said one of them, "told me that Ivan's son had
offered it for sale at the kabak [tavern]."
This accusation caused them again to go into court for a
settlement of their grievances.
While the heads of the families were trying to have their
troubles settled in court, their home quarrels were constant, and
frequently resulted in hand-to-hand encounters. Even the little
children followed the example of their elders and quarrelled
incessantly.
The women, when they met on the riverbank to do the family
The Kreutzer Sonata |
