| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and I stepped forth into the darkness, free, but little better
off than we had been before, other than that we had full
stomachs.
Hastening away from the shadows of the formidable pile
I made for the first crossroad, intending to strike the central
turnpike as quickly as possible. This I reached about morning
and entering the first enclosure I came to I searched for
some evidences of a habitation.
There were low rambling buildings of concrete barred
with heavy impassable doors, and no amount of hammering
and hallooing brought any response. Weary and exhausted
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: not deceive D'Artagnan, "that you have seen the king in bed,
asleep, and the queen also ready to retire."
"I shall tell them, madame, and those who accompany me will
say the same thing; but ---- "
"But what?" asked Anne of Austria.
"Will your majesty pardon me," said Planchet, "but is it
really the king who is lying there?"
Anne of Austria started. "If," she said, "there is one among
you who knows the king, let him approach and say whether it
is really his majesty lying there."
A man wrapped in a cloak, in the folds of which his face was
Twenty Years After |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: awhile Mucius Scaevola gave them two civic cards; and often tidings
necessary for the priest's safety came to them in roundabout ways.
Warnings and advice reached them so opportunely that they could only
have been sent by some person in the possession of state secrets. And,
at a time when famine threatened Paris, invisible hands brought
rations of "white bread" for the proscribed women in the wretched
garret. Still they fancied that Citizen Mucius Scaevola was only the
mysterious instrument of a kindness always ingenious, and no less
intelligent.
The noble ladies in the garret could no longer doubt that their
protector was the stranger of the expiatory mass on the night of the
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