| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: marks another as true steel.
He brought nothing with him from Fort Pitt except his horse, a black-coated,
fine limbed thoroughbred, which he frankly confessed was all he could call his
own. When asking Colonel Zane to give him a position in the garrison he said
he was a Virginian and had been educated in Philadelphia; that after his
father died his mother married again, and this, together with a natural love
of adventure, had induced him to run away and seek his fortune with the hardy
pioneer and the cunning savage of the border. Beyond a few months' service
under General Clark he knew nothing of frontier life; but he was tired of
idleness; he was strong and not afraid of work, and he could learn. Colonel
Zane, who prided himself on his judgment of character, took a liking to the
Betty Zane |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: R. L. S.
NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS
A SECOND SERIES
THE DYNAMITER
PROLOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN
IN the city of encounters, the Bagdad of the West, and, to be
more precise, on the broad northern pavement of Leicester
Square, two young men of five- or six-and-twenty met after
years of separation. The first, who was of a very smooth
address and clothed in the best fashion, hesitated to
recognise the pinched and shabby air of his companion.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: Any one, and especially a rhetorician, will have a good deal to say on
behalf of the law which requires a sentence to be carried out. He will
argue that this law should not be set aside; and shall we reply, 'Yes; but
the state has injured us and given an unjust sentence.' Suppose I say
that?
CRITO: Very good, Socrates.
SOCRATES: 'And was that our agreement with you?' the law would answer; 'or
were you to abide by the sentence of the state?' And if I were to express
my astonishment at their words, the law would probably add: 'Answer,
Socrates, instead of opening your eyes--you are in the habit of asking and
answering questions. Tell us,--What complaint have you to make against us
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