| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: unwomanly. However, he disdained to be one of your
fortunehunters. Then his thoughts drove off at a tangent. He
would certainly have to get something to eat at the next public
house.
ON THE ROAD TO RIPLEY
VI
In the fulness of time, Mr. Hoopdriver drew near the Marquis of
Granby at Esher, and as he came under the railway arch and saw
the inn in front of him, he mounted his machine again and rode
bravely up to the doorway. Burton and biscuit and cheese he had,
which, indeed, is Burton in its proper company; and as he was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: indicated with great precision, and whatever we saw or heard on
no account to move.
So there we stood, Bickley next to me, and beyond him Bastin.
Then Yva took the fourth shield, as I noted a much larger one
than ours, and placed herself between me and the search-light or
porthole. On the other side of this was Oro who had no shield.
These arrangements took some minutes and during that time
occupied all our attention. When they were completed, however,
our curiosity and fear began to reassert themselves. I looked
about me and perceived that Oro had his right hand upon what
seemed to be a rough stone rod, in shape not unlike that with
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: had told it a score of times round the camp fire for the benefit of some
new-comer. When this point was reached, a low murmur of applause and
sympathy always ran round the group: tonight there was quiet; the
stranger's large dark eyes watched the fire almost as though he heard
nothing.
"I shouldn't have minded so much," said Peter after a while, "though no man
likes to have his woman taken away from him; but she was going to have a
kid in a month or two--and so was the little one for anything I know; she
looked like it! I expect they did away with it before it came; they've no
hearts, these niggers; they'd think nothing of doing that with a white
man's child. They've no hearts; they'd rather go back to a black man,
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