| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: aeroplane were just flying rags and splinters of metal and drops
of moisture in the air, and a third column of fire rushed eddying
down upon the doomed buildings below....
Section 4
Never before in the history of warfare had there been a
continuing explosive; indeed, up to the middle of the twentieth
century the only explosives known were combustibles whose
explosiveness was due entirely to their instantaneousness; and
these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night
were strange even to the men who used them. Those used by the
Allies were lumps of pure Carolinum, painted on the outside with
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: splendor of the last century, with powder, patches, high-heeled
slippers, and stiff bodices with a delta stomacher of bows. Duchesses
in these days can pass through a door without any need to widen it for
their hoops. The Empire saw the last of gowns with trains! I am still
puzzled to understand how a sovereign who wished to see his drawing-
room swept by ducal satin and velvet did not make indestructible laws.
Napoleon never guessed the results of the Code he was so proud of.
That man, by creating duchesses, founded the race of our 'ladies' of
to-day--the indirect offspring of his legislation."
"It was logic, handled as a hammer by boys just out of school and by
obscure journalists, which demolished the splendors of the social
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: from their flight. The day passed, indeed, without event;
but in the fall of the evening we were called at last into
the verandah by the approaching clink of horse's hoofs.
The doctor, mounted on an Indian pony, rode into the garden,
dismounted, and saluted us. He seemed much more bent, and
his hair more silvery than ever; but his demeanour was
composed, serious, and not unkind.
'Madam,' said he, 'I am come upon a weighty errand; and I
would have you recognise it as an effect of kindness in the
President, that he should send as his ambassador your only
neighbour and your husband's oldest friend in Utah.'
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