| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: and JACK pretend to be anxious to shield CECILY and GWENDOLEN from
hearing the details of a terrible public scandal.] Twenty-eight
years ago, Prism, you left Lord Bracknell's house, Number 104,
Upper Grosvenor Street, in charge of a perambulator that contained
a baby of the male sex. You never returned. A few weeks later,
through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan police,
the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in
a remote corner of Bayswater. It contained the manuscript of a
three-volume novel of more than usually revolting sentimentality.
[MISS PRISM starts in involuntary indignation.] But the baby was
not there! [Every one looks at MISS PRISM.] Prism! Where is that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson: growing with delay, began to kick and beat upon the panels of the
door.
"It is lucky," observed the girl, "that I am alone in the house;
your General may hammer until he is weary, and there is none to
open for him. Follow me!"
So saying she led Harry into the kitchen, where she made him sit
down, and stood by him herself in an affectionate attitude, with a
hand upon his shoulder. The din at the door, so far from abating,
continued to increase in volume, and at each blow the unhappy
secretary was shaken to the heart.
"What is your name?" asked the girl.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: some learned man has found the key to the stone symbols and
writings with which the walls of the buildings are covered over.
In this city I hid with my men, though it was no easy task to
persuade them to take up their habitation among so many ghosts of
the departed, not to speak of the noisome fevers and the wild
beasts and snakes that haunted it, for I had information that the
Spaniards would pass through the swamp that lies between the ruins
and the river, and there I hoped to ambush them. But on the eighth
day of my hiding I learned from spies that Cortes had crossed the
great river higher up, and was cutting his way through the forest,
for of swamps he had passed more than enough. So I hurried also to
Montezuma's Daughter |
