| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: member of the Convention, who, trembling for himself, replied hastily,
"I will speak of it to Robespierre." The handsome petitioner put faith
in this promise, which the other carefully forgot. A few loaves of
sugar, or a bottle or two of good liqueur, given to the citoyenne
Duplay would have saved Descoings.
This little mishap proves that in revolutionary times it is quite as
dangerous to employ honest men as scoundrels; we should rely on
ourselves alone. Descoings perished; but he had the glory of going to
the scaffold with Andre Chenier. There, no doubt, grocery and poetry
embraced for the first time in the flesh; although they have, and ever
have had, intimate secret relations. The death of Descoings produced
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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: little grim, gray, old man; and behind them nine com-
panies of knights, followed by the catapult detachment;
then came the sumpter beasts. Horsan the Dane,
with his company, formed the rear guard. Three hun-
dred yards in advance of the column rode ten men to
guard against surprise and ambuscades.
The pennons, and the banners and the bugles; and
the loud rattling of sword, and lance and armor and
iron-shod hoof carried to the eye and ear ample assur-
ance that this great cavalcade of iron men was bent
upon no peaceful mission.
The Outlaw of Torn |
