| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: how you, who have written such a book, and such poetry, can be so
humble to a journalist."
"Wait till your first book comes out," said Nathan, and a shrewd smile
flitted over his face.
"I say! I say! here are Ultras and Liberals actually shaking hands!"
cried Vernou, spying the trio.
"In the morning I hold the views of my paper," said Nathan, "in the
evening I think as I please; all journalists see double at night."
Felicien Vernou turned to Lousteau.
"Finot is looking for you, Etienne; he came with me, and--here he is!"
"Ah, by the by, there is not a place in the house, is there?" asked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: starvation or illness.
Gale resumed his homeward journey. When he got through the pass
he faced a great depression, as rough as if millions of gigantic
spikes had been driven by the hammer of Thorn into a seamed and
cracked floor. This was Altar Valley. It was a chaos of array's,
canyons, rocks, and ridges all mantled with cactus, and at its
eastern end it claimed the dry bed of Forlorn River and water
when there was any. With a wounded, helpless man across the saddle,
this stretch of thorny and contorted desert was practically impassable.
Yet Gale headed into it unflinchingly. He would carry the Yaqui as
far as possible, or until death made the burden no longer a duty.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Whom that three-cornered isle of all the lands
Bore on her coasts, around which flows and flows
In mighty bend and bay the Ionic seas,
Splashing the brine from off their gray-green waves.
Here, billowing onward through the narrow straits,
Swift ocean cuts her boundaries from the shores
Of the Italic mainland. Here the waste
Charybdis; and here Aetna rumbles threats
To gather anew such furies of its flames
As with its force anew to vomit fires,
Belched from its throat, and skyward bear anew
Of The Nature of Things |
