| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: CHAPTER THE THIRD
AMANDA
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Amanda happened to Benham very suddenly.
From Haslemere he had gone on to further heaths and gorse beyond
Liphook, and thence he had wandered into a pretty district beset
with Hartings. He had foh socialistic art as
bookbinding. They were clearly ‘advanced' people. And Amanda was
tremendously important to them, she was their light, their pride,
their most living thing. They focussed on her. When he talked to
them all in general he talked to her in particular. He felt that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: of a road in Westmorland, thought of Ramsay striding along a road by
himself hung round with that solitude which seemed to be his natural air.
But this was suddenly interrupted, William Bankes remembered (and this
must refer to some actual incident), by a hen, straddling her wings out in
protection of a covey of little chicks, upon which Ramsay, stopping,
pointed his stick and said "Pretty--pretty," an odd illumination in to
his heart, Bankes had thought it, which showed his simplicity, his
sympathy with humble things; but it seemed to him as if their friendship
had ceased, there, on that stretch of road. After that, Ramsay had
married. After that, what with one thing and another, the pulp had gone
out of their friendship. Whose fault it was he could not say, only, after
To the Lighthouse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: shall not attempt to quote these people in their own ab-
breviated tongue--you would have even greater diffi-
culty in interpreting them than did I. Instead, I shall
put the words into their mouths which will carry to you
the ideas which they intended to convey.
"You are an enemy," was Gr-gr-gr's initial declaration.
"You belong to the tribe of Hooja."
Ah! So they knew Hooja and he was their enemy!
Good!
"I am an enemy of Hooja," I replied. "He has stolen
my mate and I have come here to take her away from
Pellucidar |
