| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: Mr Chandler pondered for a moment.
'Well,' he said at last, 'I wonder how about the "Tregonwell
Arms".'
'The "Tregonwell Arms" will do very well,' returned the old man,
'if it's clean and cheap, and the people civil.'
'I wasn't thinking so much of you,' returned Mr Chandler
thoughtfully. 'I was thinking of my friend Watts as keeps the
'ouse; he's a friend of mine, you see, and he helped me through
my trouble last year. And I was thinking, would it be fair-like
on Watts to saddle him with an old party like you, who might be
the death of him with general information. Would it be fair to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Of summer fruit mature. But that thy will
In certainty may find its full repose,
Lo Statius here! on him I call, and pray
That he would now be healer of thy wound."
"If in thy presence I unfold to him
The secrets of heaven's vengeance, let me plead
Thine own injunction, to exculpate me."
So Statius answer'd, and forthwith began:
"Attend my words, O son, and in thy mind
Receive them: so shall they be light to clear
The doubt thou offer'st. Blood, concocted well,
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished
of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors
and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations
with honour and reputation. He was respected by all who knew him
for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of
his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying
early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband
and the father of a family.
As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I
cannot refrain from relating them. One of his most intimate
Frankenstein |
