| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: weary vigils, and that dubious state which forms the neutral
ground between them. A hundred terrible objects appeared to
haunt me; but there was the great difference betwixt the vision
which I have described, and those which followed, that I knew the
last to be deceptions of my own fancy and over-excited nerves.
"Day at last appeared, and I rose from my bed ill in health and
humiliated in mind. I was ashamed of myself as a man and a
soldier, and still more so at feeling my own extreme desire to
escape from the haunted apartment, which, however, conquered all
other considerations; so that, huddling on my clothes with the
most careless haste, I made my escape from your lordship's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: spoken to him.
But she restrained herself, she was silent, and contented
herself with saying, "Hope, my child! Misfortune will
not overwhelm you. You will see your father again; I feel
it; and perhaps he who gave you the name of sister is not
dead. God cannot have allowed your brave companion to
perish. Hope, my child, hope! Do as I do. The mourn-
ing which I wear is not yet for my son."
CHAPTER III
BLOW FOR BLOW
SUCH were now the relative situations of Marfa Strogoff
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: the bar, where you may order all you please and do not have to pay for it.
"Eiksz! Graicziau!" screams Marija Berczynskas, and falls to work herself--
for there is more upon the stove inside that will be spoiled if it be
not eaten.
So, with laughter and shouts and endless badinage and merriment, the guests
take their places. The young men, who for the most part have been huddled
near the door, summon their resolution and advance; and the shrinking
Jurgis is poked and scolded by the old folks until he consents to seat
himself at the right hand of the bride. The two bridesmaids, whose
insignia of office are paper wreaths, come next, and after them the rest
of the guests, old and young, boys and girls. The spirit of the occasion
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