| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willingdon and got so drunk at
the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. The men had
milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting,
without bothering to feed the animals. When Mr. Jones got back he
immediately went to sleep on the drawing-room sofa with the News of the
World over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still
unfed. At last they could stand it no longer. One of the cows broke in the
door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help
themselves from the bins. It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. The
next moment he and his four men were in the store-shed with whips in their
hands, lashing out in all directions. This was more than the hungry
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: You two girls may even be spies of the vile Flatheads,
for all I know, and may be trying to trick me. But
understand this," she added, proudly rising from her
jeweled throne to confront them, "I have magic powers
greater than any fairy possesses, and greater than any
Flathead possesses. I am a Krumbic Witch -- the only
Krumbic Witch in the world -- and I fear the magic of
no other creature that exists! You say you rule
thousands. I rule one hundred and one Skeezers. But
every one of them trembles at my word. Now that Ozma of
Oz and Princess Dorothy are here, I shall rule one
Glinda of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: fled upstairs, softly, swiftly, three steps at a time, to the
sanctuary of my uncle's study, his snuggery. I arrived there
breathless, convinced there was no return for me. I was very
glad and ashamed of myself, and desperate. By means of a
penknife I contrived to break open his cabinet of cigars, drew a
chair to the window, took off my coat, collar and tie, and
remained smoking guiltily and rebelliously, and peeping through
the blind at the assembly on the lawn until it was altogether
gone....
The clergymen, I thought, were wonderful.
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