| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: farm. Cherry County. Were you hunting
somebody?"
"No, thank you. That is--" Alexandra
wanted to detain him. "That is, I would like to
find some of my brother's friends. He gradu-
ated two years ago."
"Then you'd have to try the Seniors,
wouldn't you? Let's see; I don't know any of
them yet, but there'll be sure to be some of
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: ever saw, considering the lateness of the season--and arrayed
myself in the discarded boughs and branches, and then spoke to her
with some severity and ordered her to go and get some more and not
make such a spectacle of herself. She did it, and after this we
crept down to where the wild-beast battle had been, and collected
some skins, and I made her patch together a couple of suits proper
for public occasions. They are uncomfortable, it is true, but
stylish, and that is the main point about clothes. ... I find
she is a good deal of a companion. I see I should be lonesome and
depressed without her, now that I have lost my property. Another
thing, she says it is ordered that we work for our living hereafter.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: and one for all?
Alva. You would not have us believe, however, that such is the case here
at present?
Egmont. Let the king proclaim a general pardon; he will thus tranquillize
the public mind; and it will be seen how speedily loyalty and affection will
return, when confidence is restored.
Alva. How! And suffer those who have insulted the majesty of the king,
who have violated the sanctuaries of our religion, to go abroad
unchallenged! living witnesses that enormous crimes may be perpetrated
with impunity!
Egmont. And ought not a crime of frenzy, of intoxication, to be excused,
Egmont |
