| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: have some addition to it from the particular circumstance of that
nation they belonged to: I mean the French, whose temper is
allowed to be more volatile, more passionate, and more sprightly,
and their spirits more fluid than in other nations. I am not
philosopher enough to determine the cause; but nothing I had ever
seen before came up to it. The ecstasies poor Friday, my trusty
savage, was in when he found his father in the boat came the
nearest to it; and the surprise of the master and his two
companions, whom I delivered from the villains that set them on
shore in the island, came a little way towards it; but nothing was
to compare to this, either that I saw in Friday, or anywhere else
Robinson Crusoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: and no one at home have ever known our whereabouts.
Terry was under guard now, all the time, known as unsafe,
convicted of what was to them an unpardonable sin.
He laughed at their chill horror. "Parcel of old maids!" he
called them. "They're all old maids--children or not. They don't
know the first thing about Sex."
When Terry said SEX, sex with a very large _S_, he meant
the male sex, naturally; its special values, its profound conviction of
being "the life force," its cheerful ignoring of the true life process,
and its interpretation of the other sex solely from its own point of view.
I had learned to see these things very differently since living
Herland |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: was visible in the record: Abbas became suddenly a willing
witness; he began to volunteer disclosures; and Julia had just
looked up from her seam with something like a smile, when Morris
burst into the house, eagerly calling for his uncle, and the next
instant plunged into the room, waving in the air the evening
paper.
It was indeed with great news that he came charged. The demise
was announced of Lieutenant-General Sir Glasgow Biggar, KCSI,
KCMG, etc., and the prize of the tontine now lay between the
Finsbury brothers. Here was Morris's opportunity at last. The
brothers had never, it is true, been cordial. When word came that
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