| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: a level with the roof; and we looked at each other awhile in
silence. Mr. Riach, as I do not think he had been very forward
in the battle, so he had got off with nothing worse than a blow
upon the cheek: but he looked out of heart and very weary, having
been all night afoot, either standing watch or doctoring the
wounded.
"This is a bad job," said he at last, shaking his head.
"It was none of our choosing," said I.
"The captain," says he, "would like to speak with your friend.
They might speak at the window."
"And how do we know what treachery he means?" cried I.
Kidnapped |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: in his first youth. While travelling abroad he made Nekhludoff's
acquaintance, and managed to make Nathalie, who was also no
longer a girl, fall in love with him, rather against her mother's
wishes who considered a marriage with him to be a misalliance for
her daughter. Nekhludoff, though he tried to hide it from
himself, though he fought against it, hated his brother-in-law.
Nekhludoff had a strong antipathy towards him because of the
vulgarity of his feelings, his assurance and narrowness, but
chiefly because of Nathalie, who managed to love him in spite of
the narrowness of his nature, and loved him so selfishly, so
sensually, and stifled for his sake all the good that had been in
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: the secret, and had written in all haste to beg me to come.
Hence the letter contradicting yours; hence, after my arrival,
all the accidents that occurred, such as the block of stone
thrown at Harry, the broken ladder at the Yarrow shaft,
the obstruction of the openings into the wall of the new cutting;
hence, in short, our imprisonment, and then our deliverance,
brought about by the kind assistance of Nell, who acted of
course without the knowledge of this man Silfax, and contrary
to his intentions."
"You describe everything exactly as it must have happened, Mr. Starr,"
returned old Simon. "The old 'Monk' is mad enough now, at any rate!"
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