| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: contracts. Lastly, the house is furnished with a mattress of
first-quality cotton. Here lie from six to eight white eggs, the
size of a cherry-stone.
Well, this wonderful nest is a barbarous casemate compared with
that of the Banded Epeira. As regards shape, this stocking-foot
cannot be mentioned in the same breath with the Spider's elegant
and faultlessly-rounded balloon. The fabric of mixed cotton and
tow is a rustic frieze beside the spinstress' satin; the
suspension-straps are clumsy cables compared with her delicate silk
fastenings. Where shall we find in the Penduline's mattress aught
to vie with the Epeira's eiderdown, that teazled russet gossamer?
The Life of the Spider |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: own - I asked myself. But there was nobody suitable within the
Seven Isles group, as far as I knew. It flashed upon me that it
was myself she had been lying in wait for.
She hesitated, muffled from head to foot, shadowy and bashful. I
advanced another pace, and how I felt is nobody's business.
"What is it?" I asked, very low.
"Nobody knows I am here," she whispered.
"And nobody can see us," I whispered back.
The murmur of words "I've been so frightened" reached me. Just
then forty feet above our head, from the yet lighted verandah,
unexpected and startling, Freya's voice rang out in a clear,
'Twixt Land & Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: extent of the mischief; and they wished, in the first instance, to
learn from Cinadon who his accomplices were before these latter could
discover they were informed against and effect their escape. His
captors were to secure him first, and having learnt from him the names
of his confederates, to write them down and send them as quickly as
possible to the ephors. The ephors, indeed, were so much concerned
about the whole occurrence that they further sent a company of horse
to assist their agents at Aulon.[12] As soon as the capture was
effected, and one of the horsemen was back with the list of names
taken down on the information of Cinadon, they lost no time in
apprehending the soothsayer Tisamenus and the rest who were the
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