| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
A CAMP IN THE DARK
THE next day (Tuesday, September 24th), it was two o'clock in the
afternoon before I got my journal written up and my knapsack
repaired, for I was determined to carry my knapsack in the future
and have no more ado with baskets; and half an hour afterwards I
set out for Le Cheylard l'Eveque, a place on the borders of the
forest of Mercoire. A man, I was told, should walk there in an
hour and a half; and I thought it scarce too ambitious to suppose
that a man encumbered with a donkey might cover the same distance
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: And beech for cups also.
But when ye have killed, and your bowl is spilled,
And your shoes are clean outworn,
Back ye must speed for all that ye need,
To Oak and Ash and Thorn!
Ellum she hateth mankind, and waiteth
Till every gust be laid,
To drop a limb on the head of him
That anyway trusts her shade:
But whether a lad be sober or sad,
Or mellow with ale from the horn,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: As for me, I was most agreeably surprised. At home I never
was "popular." I had my girl friends, good ones, but they were
friends--nothing else. Also they were of somewhat the same
clan, not popular in the sense of swarming admirers. But here,
to my astonishment, I found my crowd was the largest.
I have to generalize, of course, rather telescoping many
impressions; but the first evening was a good sample of the
impression we made. Jeff had a following, if I may call it that,
of the more sentimental--though that's not the word I want.
The less practical, perhaps; the girls who were artists of some sort,
ethicists, teachers--that kind.
Herland |
