| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: I thought that, under these circumstances, escape would be possible.
Indeed, the inhabited shores offered anywhere an easy refuge.
The sea was incessantly ploughed by the steamers that ply
between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mexico, and overrun
day and night by the little schooners coasting about the several
parts of the American coast. We could hope to be picked up.
It was a favourable opportunity, notwithstanding the thirty
miles that separated the Nautilus from the coasts of the Union.
One unfortunate circumstance thwarted the Canadian's plans.
The weather was very bad. We were nearing those shores
where tempests are so frequent, that country of waterspouts and
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: me; do not look below you."
"Why not?" she asked.
"You wish to know why? then look!"
Minna glanced quickly at her feet and cried out suddenly like a child
who sees a tiger. The awful sensation of abysses seized her; one
glance sufficed to communicate its contagion. The fiord, eager for
food, bewildered her with its loud voice ringing in her ears,
interposing between herself and life as though to devour her more
surely. From the crown of her head to her feet and along her spine an
icy shudder ran; then suddenly intolerable heat suffused her nerves,
beat in her veins and overpowered her extremities with electric shocks
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: has driven it from my recollection."
"Reserve it till our next meeting, my love," said the Earl
fondly, and again embracing her; "and barring only those requests
which I cannot and dare not grant, thy wish must be more than
England and all its dependencies can fulfil, if it is not
gratified to the letter."
Thus saying, he at length took farewell. At the bottom of the
staircase he received from Varney an ample livery cloak and
slouched hat, in which he wrapped himself so as to disguise his
person and completely conceal his features. Horses were ready in
the courtyard for himself and Varney; for one or two of his
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