| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: but he didn't say I was not to write as often as I
liked. I won't dally like this any longer! I have
been very wrong and neglectful in leaving everything to
be done by him!"
The dim light in the barn grew dimmer, and they could
see to work no longer. When Tess had reached home that
evening, and had entered into the privacy of her little
white-washed chamber, she began impetuously writing a
letter to Clare. But falling into doubt she could not
finish it. Afterwards she took the ring from the
ribbon on which she wore it next her heart, and
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: browsing, like cattle, in a meadow. His heart beat high, for until that moment
the only buffalo he had seen were the few which stood on the river banks as
the raft passed down the Ohio. He would surely get a shot at one of these huge
fellows.
Wetzel bade Joe do exactly as he did, whereupon he dropped on his hands and
knees and began to crawl through the long grass. This was easy for the hunter,
but very bard for the lad to accomplish. Still, he managed to keep his comrade
in sight, which was a matter for congratulation, because the man crawled as
fast as he walked. At length, after what to Joe seemed a very long time, the
hunter paused.
"Are we near enough?" whispered Joe, breathlessly.
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: Who would be free,
Himself must strike the blow.
But they dare not, know not how. The king must do it for them. He
must become the State. "Better one tyrant," as Voltaire said, "than
many." Better stand in fear of one lion far away, than of many
wolves, each in the nearest wood. And so arise those truly
monstrous Eastern despotisms, of which modern Persia is, thank God,
the only remaining specimen; for Turkey and Egypt are too amenable
of late years to the influence of the free nations to be counted as
despotisms pure and simple--despotisms in which men, instead of
worshipping a God-man, worship the hideous counterfeit, a Man-god--a
|
