| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: Then we were escorted by an army ten thousand strong, then
musicians had sung before us and our path was strewn with flowers.
And now! Now we came two fugitives from the vengeance of the
Teules, I borne in a litter by four tired soldiers, while Otomie,
the princess of this people, still clad in her wanton's robe, at
which the women mocked, for she had been able to come by no other,
tramped at my side, since there were none to carry her, and the
inhabitants of the place cursed us as the authors of their woes.
Nor did we know if they would stop at words.
At length we crossed the square beneath the shadow of the teocalli,
and reached the ancient and sculptured palace as the light failed,
Montezuma's Daughter |
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: been saved out of the River Thames, and out of the sea, where the
river is wide enough to be called so, begin here, or rather begin
at West Ham, by Stratford, and continue to extend themselves, from
hence eastward, growing wider and wider till we come beyond
Tilbury, when the flat country lies six, seven, or eight miles
broad, and is justly said to be both unhealthy and unpleasant.
However, the lands are rich, and, as is observable, it is very good
farming in the marshes, because the landlords let good pennyworths,
for it being a place where everybody cannot live, those that
venture it will have encouragement and indeed it is but reasonable
they should.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: and products? Or, among people who look more alike, do you
find their internal life and their work as similar?"
We were rather doubtful on this point, and inclined to hold
that there was more chance of improvement in greater physical
variation.
"It certainly should be," Zava admitted. "We have always
thought it a grave initial misfortune to have lost half our
little world. Perhaps that is one reason why we have so striven
for conscious improvement."
"But acquired traits are not transmissible," Terry declared.
"Weissman has proved that."
Herland |
