| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Cesar Birotteau
The Government Clerks
The Unconscious Humoriists
Jacques (M. de Beauseant's butler)
The Deserted Woman
Langeais, Duchesse Antoinette de
The Thirteen
Marsay, Henri de
The Thirteen
The Unconscious Humorists
Another Study of Woman
Father Goriot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: his accustomed toil. His eyes were small and deeply set, and his
forehead bulged fiercely above his eves in a bony ridge. His
heavy brows completed the leonine suggestion of his face. Even
to Imogen, who knew something of his work and greatly respected
it, he was entirely too reminiscent of the Stone Age to be
altogether an agreeable dinner companion. He seemed, indeed, to
have absorbed something of the savagery of those early types of
life which he continually studied.
Frank Wellington, the young Kansas man who had been two
years out of Harvard and had published three historical novels,
sat next to Mr. Will Maidenwood, who was still pale from his
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: lurch, and became still.
"Confound it!" he said.
He had an impression he must be stunned because of a surging in
his ears, and because all the voices of the people about him had
become small and remote. They were shouting like elves inside a
hill.
He found it a little difficult to get on his feet. His limbs
were mixed up with the garments Mr. Butteridge had discarded when
that gentleman had thought he must needs plunge into the sea.
Bert bawled out half angry, half rueful, "You might have said you
were going to tip the basket." Then he stood up and clutched the
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