| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: podlies, or the fry of the coal-fish, about six or eight
inches in length. The artificers sometimes occupied half an
hour after breakfast and dinner in catching these little
fishes, but were more frequently supplied from the boats of
the tender.
[Saturday, 16th June]
The landing-master having this day discharged the SMEATON
and loaded the HEDDERWICK AND DICKIE praam-boats with nineteen
stones, they were towed to their respective moorings, when
Captain Wilson, in consequence of the heavy swell of sea, came
in his boat to the beacon-house to consult with the writer as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: "Morning!" said the little fellow, addressing the remark, in a general
sort of way, to the Chancellor and the waiters. "Doos oo know where
Sylvie is? I's looking for Sylvie!"
"She's with the Warden, I believe, y'reince!" the Chancellor replied
with a low bow. There was, no doubt, a certain amount of absurdity in
applying this title (which, as of course you see without my telling
you, was nothing but 'your Royal Highness' condensed into one syllable)
to a small creature whose father was merely the Warden of Outland:
still, large excuse must be made for a man who had passed several years
at the Court of Fairyland, and had there acquired the almost impossible
art of pronouncing five syllables as one.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: coal.
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Delcorte and Taylor were now in mis-stream, coming toward
us, and I called to them to keep aloof until I knew whether
the intentions of my captors were friendly or otherwise. My
good men wanted to come on and annihilate the blacks. But
there were upward of a hundred of the latter, all well
armed, and so I commanded Delcarte to keep out of harm's
way, and stay where he was till I needed him.
A young officer called and beckoned to them. But they
refused to come, and so he gave orders that resulted in my
Lost Continent |
