| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: under the act of security, they were not indifferently prepared
for war, and waited but the declaration of some of the nobility
to break out into open hostility. It was at this period of
public confusion that our story opens.
The cleugh, or wild ravine, into which Hobbie Elliot had followed
the game, was already far behind him, and he was considerably
advanced on his return homeward, when the night began to close
upon him. This would have been a circumstance of great
indifference to the experienced sportsman, who could have walked
blindfold over every inch of his native heaths, had it not
happened near a spot, which, according to the traditions of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: Poland. In the midst of this Babylon I found myself a rallying-
point; every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the
stranger. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of
mountain people, nor even from the surprise with which I was
regarded as a man living of his own free will in Le Monastier, when
he might just as well have lived anywhere else in this big world;
it arose a good deal from my projected excursion southward through
the Cevennes. A traveller of my sort was a thing hitherto unheard
of in that district. I was looked upon with contempt, like a man
who should project a journey to the moon, but yet with a respectful
interest, like one setting forth for the inclement Pole. All were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: that Wilde himself would have envied, with an artist's envy, such
lines as -
We will sup with the moon,
Like Persian princes that in Babylon
Sup in the hanging gardens of the King.
In a stylistic sense Mr. Sturge Moore has accomplished a feat in
reconstruction, whatever opinions may be held of A Florentine
Tragedy by Wilde's admirers or detractors. The achievement is
particularly remarkable because Mr. Sturge Moore has nothing in
common with Wilde other than what is shared by all real poets and
dramatists: He is a landed proprietor on Parnassus, not a
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