| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: on the contrary, he seemed to put up with us rather than to like
us. But we always treated him with particular reverence. The
result, as I can see now, partly of his aristocratic appearance,
but chiefly because of the fact that he called my father
"Lyovótchka" and treated him just as my father treated us.
He was not only not in the least afraid of him, but was always
teasing him, and argued with him like an elder person with a
younger. We were quite alive to this.
Of course every one knew that there were no faster dogs in the
world than our black-and-white Darling and her daughter Wizard.
Not a hare could get away from them. But Uncle Seryózha
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: way that it was part of our duty to save for the under-
writers as much as we could of the ship's gear. Accord-
ing we went to work aft, while she blazed forward to give
us plenty of light. We lugged out a lot of rubbish.
What didn't we save? An old barometer fixed with an
absurd quantity of screws nearly cost me my life: a
sudden rush of smoke came upon me, and I just got
away in time. There were various stores, bolts of canvas,
coils of rope; the poop looked like a marine bazaar, and
the boats were lumbered to the gunwales. One would
have thought the old man wanted to take as much as he
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: words."
Mrs. Fosdick sighed again. "Hearin' you tell about Joanna
brings the time right back as if 'twas yesterday," she said. "Yes,
she was one o' them poor things that talked about the great sin; we
don't seem to hear nothing about the unpardonable sin now, but you
may say 'twas not uncommon then."
"I expect that if it had been in these days, such a person
would be plagued to death with idle folks," continued Mrs. Todd,
after a long pause. "As it was, nobody trespassed on her; all the
folks about the bay respected her an' her feelings; but as time
wore on, after you left here, one after another ventured to make
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