| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: 26th. -- In the evening, with a gentle land-breeze, a course
was steered for New Zealand; and as the sun set, we had a
farewell view of the mountains of Tahiti -- the island to which
every voyager has offered up his tribute of admiration.
December 19th. -- In the evening we saw in the distance
New Zealand. We may now consider that we have nearly
crossed the Pacific. It is necessary to sail over this great
ocean to comprehend its immensity. Moving quickly onwards
for weeks together, we meet with nothing but the
same blue, profoundly deep, ocean. Even within the
archipelagoes, the islands are mere specks, and far distant one
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: happened to exasperate a passion which was, and had long been, a
prevalent vice in the Scottish disposition.
It was a November morning, and the cliffs which overlooked the
ocean were hung with thick and heavy mist, when the portals of
the ancient and half-ruinous tower, in which Lord Ravenswood had
spent the last and troubled years of his life, opened, that his
mortal remains might pass forward to an abode yet more dreary
and lonely. The pomp of attendance, to which the deceased had,
in his latter years, been a stranger, was revived as he was about
to be consigned to the realms of forgetfulness.
Banner after banner, with the various devices and coats of this
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: How these women loved the man!
For a moment I could not speak. When I found my voice it sounded
dry and husky.
'He is a safe confidant,' I muttered. 'He can neither read nor
write, Mademoiselle.'
'No, but--' and then her face became fixed. 'They are coming,'
she whispered. 'Hush!' She rose stiffly, and stood supporting
herself by the table. 'Have they--have they--found him?' she
muttered. The woman by her side wept on, unconscious of what was
impending.
I heard the Captain stumble far down the passage, and swear
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