| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: burnished silver; the doors, the window frames, the cornices, the
balustrades and the steps of the staircase, of pure gold; and
silver, with gold bottoms, were the chairs, and gold, standing on
silver legs, the high chests of drawers, and silver the
bedsteads, with blankets of woven gold, and sheets of silver
tissue. The house had evidently been transmuted by a single
touch; for it retained all the marks that Peter remembered, but
in gold or silver instead of wood; and the initials of his name,
which, when a boy, he had cut in the wooden door-post, remained
as deep in the pillar of gold. A happy man would have been Peter
Goldthwaite except for a certain ocular deception, which,
Twice Told Tales |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: betting his guinea, and generally successfully; nor was there a
main fought in Yorkshire, the feeders being persons of celebrity,
at which he was not to be seen if business permitted. But though
a SPRACK lad, and fond of pleasure and its haunts, Harry
Wakefield was steady, and not the cautious Robin Oig M'Combich
himself was more attentive to the main chance. His holidays were
holidays indeed; but his days of work were dedicated to steady
and persevering labour. In countenance and temper, Wakefield was
the model of Old England's merry yeomen, whose clothyard shafts,
in so many hundred battles, asserted her superiority over the
nations, and whose good sabres, in our own time, are her cheapest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: And David and Solomon, when they gave judgment concerning the field,
when some people's sheep had strayed therein at night; and we
testified to their judgment; and this we gave Solomon to understand.
To each of them we gave judgment and knowledge; and to David we
subjected the mountains to celebrate our praises, and the birds
too,-it was we who did it.
And we taught him the art of making coats of mail for you, to shield
you from each other's violence; are ye then grateful?
And to Solomon (we subjected) the wind blowing stormily, to run on
at his bidding to the land which we have blessed,-for all things did
we know,-and some devils to dive for him, and to do other works beside
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