| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: ``Pin the villains to the earth with my lance,
Wamba, if they offered us any impediment.''
``But what if there were four of them?''
``They should drink of the same cup,'' answered
the Knight.
``What if six,'' continued Wamba, ``and we as
we now are, barely two---would you not remember
Locksley's horn?''
``What! sound for aid,'' exclaimed the Knight,
``against a score of such rascaille as these, whom
one good knight could drive before him, as the
Ivanhoe |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: For when I got well my mother closed my school career and
apprenticed me to a printer. She was tired of trying to keep me
out of mischief, and the adventure of the measles decided her to
put me into more masterful hands than hers.
I became a printer, and began to add one link after another
to the chain which was to lead me into the literary profession.
A long road, but I could not know that; and as I did not know
what its goal was, or even that it had one, I was indifferent.
Also contented.
A young printer wanders around a good deal, seeking and
finding work; and seeking again, when necessity commands. N. B.
What is Man? |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: of her shoulders.
"Even that would have been a surprise."
"You mean a shock, eh? Did you suppose I was dead?"
Now, at last, she lowered her eyes, and her blush slowly died away.
"I knew nothing about it."
"Of course you could n't know, and we are all mortal. It was
natural that you should n't expect--simply on turning your head--
to find me lying on the pebbles at Blanquais-les-Galets. You
were a great surprise to me, as well; but I differ from you--
I like surprises."
"It is rather refreshing to hear that one is a surprise,"
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