| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: up to that bulletin board and look at it before everybody.
I haven't the moral courage. I'm going straight to the girls'
dressing room. You must read the announcements and then
come and tell me, Jane. And I implore you in the name
of our old friendship to do it as quickly as possible.
If I have failed just say so, without trying to break it
gently; and whatever you do DON'T sympathize with me.
Promise me this, Jane."
Jane promised solemnly; but, as it happened, there was no
necessity for such a promise. When they went up the entrance
steps of Queen's they found the hall full of boys who were
Anne of Green Gables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: more about the couch that they might hide the gruesome thing
beneath, the girl once more threw her arms about the English-
man's neck and dragged him toward the soft and luxurious
pillows above the dead man. Acutely conscious of the horror
of his position, filled with loathing, disgust, and an outraged
sense of decency, Smith-Oldwick was also acutely alive to the
demands of self-preservation. He felt that he was warranted
in buying his life at almost any price; but there was a point at
which his finer nature rebelled.
It was at this juncture that a loud knock sounded upon the
door of the outer room. Springing from the couch, the girl
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: you learn and how do you know the nature of the expedient, and who is your
teacher? All this I comprehend in a single question, and now you will
manifestly be in the old difficulty, and will not be able to show that you
know the expedient, either because you learned or because you discovered it
yourself. But, as I perceive that you are dainty, and dislike the taste of
a stale argument, I will enquire no further into your knowledge of what is
expedient or what is not expedient for the Athenian people, and simply
request you to say why you do not explain whether justice and expediency
are the same or different? And if you like you may examine me as I have
examined you, or, if you would rather, you may carry on the discussion by
yourself.
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