| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: terminated at the foot of the hill. Flocks of rock-pigeons and sea-
swallows, similar to those of Lincoln Island, fluttered around them. Under
the woods which skirted the glade on the left they could hear the bushes
rustling and see the grass waving, which indicated the presence of timid
animals, but still nothing to show that the island was inhabited.
Arrived at the foot of the hill, Pencroft, Spilett, and Herbert climbed
it in a few minutes, and gazed anxiously round the horizon.
They were on an islet, which did not measure more than six miles in
circumference, its shape not much bordered by capes or promontories, bays
or creeks, being a lengthened oval. All around, the lonely sea extended to
the limits of the horizon. No land nor even a sail was in sight.
The Mysterious Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: large headline: EX-V.A.D. FEARED DROWNED.) The letter ended with
the offer of a post on a ranch in the Argentine, where Sir James
had considerable interests.
"Kind old beggar," muttered Tommy, as he flung it aside.
The door opened, and Julius burst in with his usual violence. He
held an open newspaper in his hand.
"Say, what's all this? They seem to have got some fool idea
about Tuppence."
"It's true," said Tommy quietly.
"You mean they've done her in?"
Tommy nodded.
Secret Adversary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: Here Jonathan interrupted him hotly, "Do you mean to say,
Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, in her
sad case and tainted as she is with that devil's illness,
right into the jaws of his deathtrap? Not for the world!
Not for Heaven or Hell!"
He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on, "Do you know
what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy,
with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and ever speck
of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo?
Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat?"
Here he turned to me, and as his eyes lit on my forehead he threw up his arms
Dracula |
