| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: [Exeunt.]
ACT III. SCENE V. The Same.
[Enter King Edward and Audley.]
KING EDWARD.
Lord Audley, whiles our son is in the chase,
With draw our powers unto this little hill,
And here a season let us breath our selves.
AUDLEY.
I will, my Lord.
[Exit. Sound Retreat.]
KING EDWARD.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: human curiosity about the dead body, and followed it in a thick knot,
sniffing and growling at it as the Bull-men dragged it down the beach.
I went to the headland and watched the bull-men, black against
the evening sky as they carried the weighted dead body out to sea;
and like a wave across my mind came the realisation of the unspeakable
aimlessness of things upon the island. Upon the beach among
the rocks beneath me were the Ape-man, the Hyena-swine, and several
other of the Beast People, standing about Montgomery and Moreau.
They were all still intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy
expressions of their loyalty to the Law; yet I felt an absolute
assurance in my own mind that the Hyena-swine was implicated
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Goriot's grave, Eugene Rastignac's youth ended. He folded his
arms and gazed at the clouded sky; and Christophe, after a glance
at him, turned and went--Rastignac was left alone.
He went a few paces further, to the highest point of the
cemetery, and looked out over Paris and the windings of the
Seine; the lamps were beginning to shine on either side of the
river. His eyes turned almost eagerly to the space between the
column of the Place Vendome and the cupola of the Invalides;
there lay the shining world that he had wished to reach. He
glanced over that humming hive, seeming to draw a foretaste of
its honey, and said magniloquently:
Father Goriot |
