| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: man in all England could stand thus against forty? A
lion at bay with forty jackals yelping at his feet."
"Enough, girl," cried the King, "what be this knave
to thee?"
"He loves me, Your Majesty," she replied proudly,
and I, him."
"Thou lov'st this low born cut-throat, Bertrade," cried
Henry. "Thou, a De Montfort, the daughter of my
sister; who have seen this murderer's accursed mark
upon the foreheads of thy kin; thou have seen him
flaunt his defiance in the King's, thy uncle's, face, and
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: applying to the woollen manufacture, and the country is exceedingly
fruitful and fertile, as well in corn as in pastures; particularly,
which was very pleasant to see, the pheasants were in such great
plenty as to be seen in the stubbles like cocks and hens - a
testimony though, by the way, that the county had more tradesmen
than gentlemen in it; indeed, this part is so entirely given up to
industry, that what with the seafaring men on the one side, and the
manufactures on the other, we saw no idle hands here, but every man
busy on the main affair of life, that is to say, getting money;
some of the principal of these towns are:- Alsham, North Walsham,
South Walsham, Worsted, Caston, Reepham, Holt, Saxthorp, St.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: I discovered then the only sign of weakness in Falk.
He had for Schomberg a repulsion resembling that
sort of physical fear some people experience at the
sight of a toad. Perhaps to a man so essentially
and silently concentrated upon himself (though he
could talk well enough, as I was to find out
presently) the other's irrepressible loquacity, em-
bracing every human being within range of the
tongue, might have appeared unnatural, disgust-
ing, and monstrous. He suddenly gave signs of
restiveness--positively like a horse about to rear,
Falk |
