| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: take that from me. I came near to dying. The whole village was
interested, and anxious, and sent for news of me every day; and
not only once a day, but several times. Everybody believed I
would die; but on the fourteenth day a change came for the worse
and they were disappointed.
This was a turning-point of my life. (Link number one.)
For when I got well my mother closed my school career and
apprenticed me to a printer. She was tired of trying to keep me
out of mischief, and the adventure of the measles decided her to
put me into more masterful hands than hers.
I became a printer, and began to add one link after another
What is Man? |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: they seem to be indisputably human beings. It's afterwards, as I
observe them, that the persuasion fades. First one animal trait,
then another, creeps to the surface and stares out at me.
But I will conquer yet! Each time I dip a living creature into the bath
of burning pain, I say, `This time I will burn out all the animal;
this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' After all,
what is ten years? Men have been a hundred thousand in the making."
He thought darkly. "But I am drawing near the fastness.
This puma of mine--" After a silence, "And they revert.
As soon as my hand is taken from them the beast begins
to creep back, begins to assert itself again." Another long
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Ferguson."
The detective needed no second bidding.
"Another point," he began. "There never would have been a
post-mortem examination if Miss Helen McIntyre hadn't asked for
it. She knew of the ill-feeling between the men and suspected
foul play on Rochester's part."
"Wait," commanded Kent. "Has Miss McIntyre substantiated that
statement?"
"Not yet," admitted Ferguson. "I stopped at her house, but the
butler said the young ladies had retired and could not see any
one." Kent, who had called there on the way to keep his dinner
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