| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "How long do you imagine they will keep me, Rudolph?"
he asked after a time.
"Yellow Franz has already sent Herman to Lustadt with
a message for Prince Peter, telling him that you are being
held for ransom, and demanding the payment of a huge sum
for your release. Day after tomorrow or the next day he
should return with Prince Peter's reply.
"If it is favorable, arrangements will be made to turn
you over to Prince Peter's agents, who will have to come to
some distant meeting place with the money. A week, per-
haps, it will take, maybe longer."
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: He walked across the church, and Count Ottaviano followed him out
into the deserted square.
"Now," said Wyant, pausing on the steps.
The Count, who had regained some measure of self-possession,
began to speak in a high key, with an accompaniment of
conciliatory gesture.
"My dear sir--my dear Mr. Wyant--you find me in an abominable
position--that, as a man of honor, I immediately confess. I have
taken advantage of you--yes! I have counted on your amiability,
your chivalry--too far, perhaps? I confess it! But what could I
do? It was to oblige a lady"--he laid a hand on his heart--"a
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: pools of these on the ground that made the foot slip. The smoke of the
meats ascended into the foliage with the vapour of the breath.
Simultaneously were heard the snapping of jaws, the noise of speech,
songs, and cups, the crash of Campanian vases shivering into a
thousand pieces, or the limpid sound of a large silver dish.
In proportion as their intoxication increased they more and more
recalled the injustice of Carthage. The Republic, in fact, exhausted
by the war, had allowed all the returning bands to accumulate in the
town. Gisco, their general, had however been prudent enough to send
them back severally in order to facilitate the liquidation of their
pay, and the Council had believed that they would in the end consent
Salammbo |
