| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: be discovered, and I needed all the time that I could gain.
Donning my trappings and weapons I hastened to the
sheds, and soon had out both my machine and Kantos Kan's.
Making his fast behind mine I started my engine, and skimming
over the edge of the roof I dove down into the streets of
the city far below the plane usually occupied by the air
patrol. In less than a minute I was settling safely upon
the roof of our apartment beside the astonished Kantos Kan.
I lost no time in explanation, but plunged immediately
into a discussion of our plans for the immediate future.
It was decided that I was to try to make Helium while Kantos
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Grazing the tender herb, were interposed,
Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap
Of some irriguous valley spread her store,
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose:
Another side, umbrageous grots and caves
Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine
Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps
Luxuriant; mean while murmuring waters fall
Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake,
That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned
Her crystal mirrour holds, unite their streams.
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: this was surely a subject on which one took everything for granted;
whereupon I admitted that I had perhaps expressed myself ill. What
I referred to was what I had referred to the night we met in Upper
Baker Street--the relative importance (relative to virtue) of other
gifts. She asked me if I called virtue a gift--a thing handed to
us in a parcel on our first birthday; and I declared that this very
enquiry proved to me the problem had already caught her by the
skirt. She would have help however, the same help I myself had
once had, in resisting its tendency to make one cross.
"What help do you mean?"
"That of the member for Clockborough."
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