| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over
the bed of the quarry. The animals lashed ropes round these, and then all
together, cows, horses, sheep, any animal that could lay hold of the
rope--even the pigs sometimes joined in at critical moments--they dragged
them with desperate slowness up the slope to the top of the quarry, where
they were toppled over the edge, to shatter to pieces below. Transporting
the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple. The horses
carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel
and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their
share. By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and
then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: other people as well--a changing pushing cluster, with every one to
mind at once and endless right change to make and information to
produce. But she kept hold of him throughout; she continued, for
herself, in a relation with him as close as that in which, behind
the hated ground glass, Mr. Buckton luckily continued with the
sounder. This morning everything changed, but rather to
dreariness; she had to swallow the rebuff to her theory about fatal
desires, which she did without confusion and indeed with absolute
levity; yet if it was now flagrant that he did live close at hand--
at Park Chambers--and belonged supremely to the class that wired
everything, even their expensive feelings (so that, as he never
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: made a hole in her. This time we did not even
go outside. The crew simply refused to man the
windlass.
"They towed us back to the inner harbor, and we be-
came a fixture, a feature, an institution of the place.
People pointed us out to visitors as 'That 'ere bark
that's going to Bankok--has been here six months--put
back three times.' On holidays the small boys pulling
about in boats would hail, 'Judea, ahoy!' and if a head
showed above the rail shouted, 'Where you bound to?--
Bankok?' and jeered. We were only three on board.
Youth |
