| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: to Calcutta by the next train. Owing to the delay caused by the rescue
of the young widow, Fix and the priests reached the Indian capital before
Mr. Fogg and his servant, the magistrates having been already warned
by a dispatch to arrest them should they arrive. Fix's disappointment
when he learned that Phileas Fogg had not made his appearance in Calcutta
may be imagined. He made up his mind that the robber had stopped
somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces.
For twenty-four hours Fix watched the station with feverish anxiety;
at last he was rewarded by seeing Mr. Fogg and Passepartout arrive,
accompanied by a young woman, whose presence he was wholly at a loss
to explain. He hastened for a policeman; and this was how the party came
Around the World in 80 Days |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he was stalking man, and so he sought only to avoid noise.
Closer and closer to the slowly moving ape-man he came.
Now he raised his war spear, throwing his spear-hand far back
above his right shoulder. Once and for all would Mbonga,
the chief, rid himself and his people of the menace
of this terrifying enemy. He would make no poor cast;
he would take pains, and he would hurl his weapon with such
great force as would finish the demon forever.
But Mbonga, sure as he thought himself, erred in
his calculations. He might believe that he was stalking
a man-- he did not know, however, that it was a man
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: gathered in a group at one end of the room. Though they had never seen
one another before, most of them being the offspring of the late
national lying-in, they seemed to recognize a certain representative
air which is very difficult to define, though it can never be
mistaken. The usher, not venturing to choose among so many eminent
personages, turned a mute, caressing glance on all, as if to say,--
"Whom shall I have the honor of first announcing?"
"Gentlemen," said Colonel Franchessini, "I believe I have seen you all
arrive."
And he walked to the closed door, which the usher threw open,
announcing in a loud, clear voice,--
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