| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: undertakings, telling him how many men had been bribed, what letters
had been intercepted, and the number of spies stationed at the city
gates. She did not hesitate even to tell him of her success in an
attempt to befool and seduce Eutyches the denunciator.
"And why should I not?" she said; "it cost me nothing. For thee, my
lord, have I not done more than that? Did I not even abandon my
child?"
After her divorce from Philip, she had indeed left her daughter in
Rome, hoping that, as the wife of the tetrarch, she might bear other
children. Until that moment she had never spoken to Antipas of her
daughter. He asked himself the reason for this sudden display of
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: guards and tutors, making many discourteous remarks.
I reminded him that we had still a long way to go before getting
to the place where we'd left our machine, and no probability of finding
it there; but he only kicked me, mildly, for a croaker.
"If you can't boost, don't knock," he protested. "I never said
'twould be a picnic. But I'd run away in the Antarctic ice fields
rather than be a prisoner."
We soon dozed off again.
The long rest and penetrating dry heat were good for us, and
that night we covered a considerable distance, keeping always in
the rough forested belt of land which we knew bordered the
Herland |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry: ***
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities,
of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different
men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it
will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do
opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my
sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony.
The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country.
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