| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: and so on. This speech concluded with a challenge
to the infidel, at the end of which it was Eustacia's
duty to enter as the Turkish Knight. She, with the
rest who were not yet on, had hitherto remained
in the moonlight which streamed under the porch.
With no apparent effort or backwardness she came in, beginning--
"Here come I, a Turkish Knight,
Who learnt in Turkish land to fight;
I'll fight this man with courage bold:
If his blood's hot I'll make it cold!"
During her declamation Eustacia held her head erect,
Return of the Native |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: the future.
At last the shaggy man turned and inquired, "What's your name,
little girl?"
"My name's Dorothy," said she, jumping up again, "but what are we
going to do? We can't stay here forever, you know."
"Let's take the seventh road," he suggested. "Seven is a lucky number
for little girls named Dorothy."
"The seventh from where?"
"From where you begin to count."
So she counted seven roads, and the seventh looked just like all the
others; but the shaggy man got up from the ground where he had been
The Road to Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: polite. He was acting, it appeared, for a third party; he
understood nothing of the circumstances; his client desired to
have his position regularized; but he would accept an antedated
cheque--antedated by two months, if Mr Finsbury chose.
'But I don't understand this,' said Morris. 'What made you pay
cent. per cent. for it today?'
Mr Moss had no idea; only his orders.
'The whole thing is thoroughly irregular,' said Morris. 'It is
not the custom of the trade to settle at this time of the year.
What are your instructions if I refuse?'
'I am to see Mr Joseph Finsbury, the head of the firm,' said Mr
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