| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: in the great golden shields. Hamilcar stood smiling with folded arms,
and was less delighted by the sight of his riches than by the
consciousness of their possession. They were inaccessible,
exhaustless, infinite. His ancestors sleeping beneath his feet
transmitted something of their eternity to his heart. He felt very
near to the subterranean deities. It was as the joy of one of the
Kabiri; and the great luminous rays striking upon his face looked like
the extremity of an invisible net linking him across the abysses with
the centre of the world.
A thought came which made him shudder, and placing himself behind the
idol he walked straight up to the wall. Then among the tattooings on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: attic, or the subterranean closet where the trunks were kept,
had been singled out by them for that very reason.
These changes from ubiquity to invisibility would have seemed to
Susy, a few months earlier, one of the most maddening of many
characteristics not calculated to promote repose. But now she
felt differently. She had grown interested in her charges, and
the search for a clue to their methods, whether tribal or
individual, was as exciting to her as the development of a
detective story.
What interested her most in the whole stirring business was the
discovery that they had a method. These little creatures,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated. A single
domestic sufficed to serve him. He breakfasted and dined at the club,
at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table,
never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing
a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire
at once to bed. He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform
provides for its favoured members. He passed ten hours out of the
twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet.
When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the
entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery
with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns,
Around the World in 80 Days |
