| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: could fail to remark between the captain and the count, the little
Pole with his pinched face and the stalwart soldier.
"Good morning, Adam," he said familiarly. Then he bowed courteously as
he asked Clementine what he could do for her.
"You are Laginski's friend!" exclaimed the countess.
"For life and death," answered Paz, to whom the count threw a smile of
affection as he drew a last puff from his perfumed pipe.
"Then why don't you take your meals with us? why did you not accompany
us to Italy and Switzerland? why do you hide yourself in such a way
that I am unable to thank you for the constant services that you do
for us?" said the countess, with much vivacity of manner but no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: retort.
"You forget yourself, Prince von der Tann," he cried.
"Leave our presence. When we again desire to be insulted
we shall send for you."
As the chancellor passed into the antechamber Count
Zellerndorf rose and greeted him warmly, almost effusively.
Von der Tann returned his salutations with courtesy but
with no answering warmth. Then he passed on out of the
palace.
"The old fox must have heard," he mused as he mounted
his horse and turned his face toward Tann and the Old
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: Let my readers pardon me if I seem to write too earnestly. That I
speak neither more nor less than the truth, every medical man
knows full well. Not only as a very humble student of physiology,
but as a parish priest of thirty years' standing, I have seen so
much unnecessary misery; and I have in other cases seen similar
misery so simply avoided; that the sense of the vastness of the
evil is intensified by my sense of the easiness of the cure.
Why, then--to come to practical suggestions--should there not be
opened in every great town in these realms a public school of
health? It might connect itself with--I hold that it should form
an integral part of--some existing educational institute. But it
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