| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: had written long, abject articles in 'The Times', analysing the reasons
for their defection and promising to make amends.
Some time after their release Winston had actually seen all three of them
in the Chestnut Tree Cafe. He remembered the sort of terrified fascination
with which he had watched them out of the corner of his eye. They were men
far older than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great
figures left over from the heroic days of the Party. The glamour of the
underground struggle and the civil war still faintly clung to them. He had
the feeling, though already at that time facts and dates were growing
blurry, that he had known their names years earlier than he had known that
of Big Brother. But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed
1984 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
The Economist 1
On Horsemanship 1
The Sportsman 1
The Cavalry General 1
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: evening before Henry had ordered a foraging party
to ride forth at daybreak, as provisions for both men
and beasts were low.
This party had scarcely left the city behind them ere
they fell into the hands of the baronial troops. Though
some few were killed or captured those who escaped
were sufficient to arouse the sleeping army of the
royalists to the close proximity and gravity of their
danger.
By this time the four divisions of De Montfort's army
were in full view of the town. On the left were the
The Outlaw of Torn |
