| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: had given no further thought to the matter, because Antipas, who had
been present at the conference, had, in order to gain favour, sent off
despatches bearing the news. From that time he had borne a profound
hatred towards the emperor and had delayed in sending assistance to
him.
The tetrarch stammered in attempting to reply to the query of the
proconsul. But Aulus laughed and said: "Do not be disturbed. I will
protect thee!"
The proconsul feigned not to hear this remark. The fortune of the
father depended, in a way, on the corrupt influence of the son; and
through him it was possible that Antipas might be able to procure for
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: her and make myself forever safe, and it is this that has brought
me here to-day. My magic is powerful enough to change the prince
back into his true shape again, and I will do so if he will aid
me in what follows, and this is it: I will conjure the queen, and
by-and-by a great eagle will come flying, and its plumage will be
as black as night. Then I myself will become an eagle, with
black-and-white plumage, and we two will fight in the air. After
a while we will both fall to the ground, and then the prince must
cut off the head of the black eagle with a knife I shall give
him. Will you do this?" said she, turning to the raven, "if I
transform you to your true shape?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: My friends lamented my connection with him, but I was to make the best
of it.
Our first papers made a quite different appearance from any before
in the province; a better type, and better printed; but some spirited
remarks of my writing, on the dispute then going on between Governor
Burnet and the Massachusetts Assembly, struck the principal people,
occasioned the paper and the manager of it to be much talk'd of,
and in a few weeks brought them all to be our subscribers.
Their example was follow'd by many, and our number went on
growing continually. This was one of the first good effects of my
having learnt a little to scribble; another was, that the leading men,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
