| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: double soled shoes that creaked like an abbe's; he always held a
fourteen franc silk hat in his hand.
" 'I am old and I have no children,' he took occasion to confide to
the young lady some few days after Cerizet's visit to Maxime. 'I hold
my relations in horror. They are peasants born to work in the fields.
Just imagine it, I came up from the country with six francs in my
pocket, and made my fortune here. I am not proud. A pretty woman is my
equal. Now would it not be nicer to be Mme. Croizeau for some years to
come than to do a Count's pleasure for a twelvemonth? He will go off
and leave you some time or other; and when that day comes, you will
think of me . . . your servant, my pretty lady!'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of evil, and it was wholly dominated by the most uncanny
eyes that ever reflected a human soul, for they were narrow
and long, very slightly oblique, and of a brilliant green.
But their unique horror lay in a certain filminess
(it made me think of the membrana nictitans in a bird)
which, obscuring them as I threw wide the door, seemed to lift
as I actually passed the threshold, revealing the eyes in all
their brilliant iridescence.
I know that I stopped dead, one foot within the room, for the
malignant force of the man was something surpassing my experience.
He was surprised by this sudden intrusion--yes, but no trace of fear
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: which meant the same thing as impossible at all under present
conditions. Yet he did not yield to this opinion without going
over every inch of the walls many times to make sure that no
secret panel opened into a tunnel from the room.
"I reckon they want to keep us, Curly. Mr. Megales has sure got
us real safe this time. I'd be plumb discouraged about breaking
jail out of this cage. It's ce'tainly us to stay hitched a
while."
About dark tortillas and frijoles were brought down to them by
the facetious turnkey, who was accompanied as usual by two
guards.
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