| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: is what people say of you, to be quite frank. Now, do turn respectable.
How will you like going to Sessions with everybody looking shy
on you, and you with a bad conscience and an empty pocket?"
"I don't pretend to argue with a lady on politics," said Mr. Brooke,
with an air of smiling indifference, but feeling rather unpleasantly
conscious that this attack of Mrs. Cadwallader's had opened the
defensive campaign to which certain rash steps had exposed him.
"Your sex are not thinkers, you know--varium et mutabile
semper--that kind of thing. You don't know Virgil. I knew"--Mr.
Brooke reflected in time that he had not had the personal acquaintance
of the Augustan poet--"I was going to say, poor Stoddart, you know.
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: were all pretending, and they saw Mrs. Voke Ease-
ley was in bad. And she saw it, too, and tried to
save herself.
"Of course," she said, "Citronella and Stegomyia
weren't Italian lovers THEMSELVES. But so many of
the old Italian poets have written about them that
I always think of them as glowing stars in that
wonderful, wonderful galaxy of Italian romance!"
Fothy can be very mean when he wants to. So he said:
"I don't read Italian, Mrs. Easeley. I have been
forced to get all my information about Citronella
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: thee!' from the fellows of the right!
Or, if he be of those who say it is a lie,-who err! then
an entertainment of boiling water! and broiling
in hell!
Verily, this is surely certain truth!
So celebrate the grand name of thy Lord!
THE CHAPTER OF IRON
(LVII. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Whatever is in the heavens and the earth celebrates the praises of
God, for He is the mighty, the wise!
The Koran |
