| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: On a sign from the Emir, Michael was led into the middle
of the square.
"Blount," said Alcide to his companion, "are you going
to see the end of all this?"
"No, that I am not," replied Blount.
"The readers of the Daily Telegraph are, I hope, not
very eager for the details of an execution a la mode
Tartare?"
"No more than your cousin!"
"Poor fellow!" added Alcide, as he watched Michael.
"That valiant soldier should have fallen on the field of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: 'You make me feel as though I was the last of
deformity--Deformity is uncertainty--inaccuracy. My body works
doubtfully, it is not even sure that it will die or live. I
suppose the time is not far off when such bodies as mine will no
longer be born into the world.'
'You see,' said Fowler, after a little pause, 'it is necessary
that spirits such as yours should be born into the world.'
'I suppose,' said Karenin, 'that my spirit has had its use. But
if you think that is because my body is as it is I think you are
mistaken. There is no peculiar virtue in defect. I have always
chafed against--all this. If I could have moved more freely and
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense, the freaks
and the fancies of a child never banished from home; and Mrs. Weston--
no one could doubt that a daughter would be most to her; and it
would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach,
should not have their powers in exercise again.
"She has had the advantage, you know, of practising on me,"
she continued--"like La Baronne d'Almane on La Comtesse d'Ostalis,
in Madame de Genlis' Adelaide and Theodore, and we shall now see
her own little Adelaide educated on a more perfect plan."
"That is," replied Mr. Knightley, "she will indulge her even more
than she did you, and believe that she does not indulge her at all.
Emma |
