| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: judgment as well as tolerance, dispassionateness as well as energy--
in fact, all those qualities which in the melancholy experience
of mankind have been the least disposed to share lodgings.
Mr. Hackbutt, whose fluent speech was at that time floating more widely
than usual, and leaving much uncertainty as to its ultimate channel,
was heard to say in Mr. Hawley's office that the article in question
"emanated" from Brooke of Tipton, and that Brooke had secretly
bought the "Pioneer" some months ago.
"That means mischief, eh?" said Mr. Hawley. "He's got the freak of
being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise.
So much the worse for him. I've had my eye on him for some time.
Middlemarch |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: And free men wear no tyrant's chain.
Memory
I stood and watched him playing,
A little lad of three,
And back to me came straying
The years that used to be;
In him the boy was Maying
Who once belonged to me.
The selfsame brown his eyes were
As those that once I knew;
As glad and gay his cries were,
Just Folks |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: little; and when he saw Henderson, the London journalist,
in his garden, he called over the palings and made himself
understood.
"Henderson," he called, "you saw that shooting star last
night?"
"Well?" said Henderson.
"It's out on Horsell Common now."
"Good Lord!" said Henderson. "Fallen meteorite! That's
good."
"But it's something more than a meteorite. It's a cylinder
--an artificial cylinder, man! And there's something inside."
War of the Worlds |
