| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: as she only could ring it--with an impatient jerk.
"She wants hot milk," said James, "and the man has just come."
I laid my bonnet down, and went to the kitchen. Saluting the
cook, who was an old acquaintance, and who told me that the "divil"
had been in the range that morning, I took a pan, into which I
poured some milk, and held it over the gaslight till it was hot;
then I carried it up to Aunt Eliza.
"Here is your milk, Aunt Eliza. You have sent for me to help you,
and I begin with the earliest opportunity."
"I looked for you an hour ago. Ring the bell."
I rang it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: basaltic precipices, the condor reappears. From these facts
it seems that the condors require perpendicular cliffs. I
Chile, they haunt, during the greater part of the year, th
lower country near the shores of the Pacific, and at nigh
several roost together in one tree; but in the early part o
summer, they retire to the most inaccessible parts of th
inner Cordillera, there to breed in peace.
With respect to their propagation, I was told by th
country people in Chile, that the condor makes no sort o
nest, but in the months of November and December lay
two large white eggs on a shelf of bare rock. It is said tha
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: sticky mud at the bottom. Old Swaffer walked out
slowly into the field, waited till the plough came
over to his side, had a good look at him, and with-
out saying a word went back to the house. But
from that time they laid out his meals on the kitch-
en table; and at first, Miss Swaffer, all in black and
with an inscrutable face, would come and stand in
the doorway of the living-room to see him make a
big sign of the cross before he fell to. I believe that
from that day, too, Swaffer began to pay him reg-
ular wages.
Amy Foster |
