| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: locked in there for the night.
The next morning, he found that the obliging care of his martial
friend had decorated his hat with sundry particoloured streamers,
which made a very lively appearance; and in company with that
officer, and three other military gentlemen newly enrolled, who
were under a cloud so dense that it only left three shoes, a boot,
and a coat and a half visible among them, repaired to the
riverside. Here they were joined by a corporal and four more
heroes, of whom two were drunk and daring, and two sober and
penitent, but each of whom, like Joe, had his dusty stick and
bundle. The party embarked in a passage-boat bound for Gravesend,
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: joined them they changed the conversation. That night, as she was
going, Prudence complained of the cold and asked Marguerite to
lend her a shawl.
So a month passed, and all the time Marguerite was more joyous
and more affectionate than she ever had been. Nevertheless, the
carriage did not return, the shawl had not been sent back, and I
began to be anxious in spite of myself, and as I knew in which
drawer Marguerite put Prudence's letters, I took advantage of a
moment when she was at the other end of the garden, went to the
drawer, and tried to open it; in vain, for it was locked. When I
opened the drawer in which the trinkets and diamonds were usually
Camille |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: ----rather with Saladin will we league ourselves,
than endure the scorn of the bigots whom we contemn.
---I will form new paths to greatness,'' he continued,
again traversing the room with hasty strides
---``Europe shall hear the loud step of him she
has driven from her sons!---Not the millions whom
her crusaders send to slaughter, can do so much to
defend Palestine---not the sabres of the thousands
and ten thousands of Saracens can hew their way
so deep into that land for which nations are striving,
as the strength and policy of me and those
Ivanhoe |
