| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: if they WERE, in a certain case, to be caught, it shouldn't be the
fault of her own grand memory. Hadn't it been settled weeks
before?--for Miss Dolman it was always to be "Cooper's."
CHAPTER XIV
But the summer "holidays" brought a marked difference; they were
holidays for almost every one but the animals in the cage. The
August days were flat and dry, and, with so little to feed it, she
was conscious of the ebb of her interest in the secrets of the
refined. She was in a position to follow the refined to the extent
of knowing--they had made so many of their arrangements with her
aid--exactly where they were; yet she felt quite as if the panorama
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: on condition that each of his three companions should endow
him with one of the gifts each had received from Heaven.
Notwithstanding his commission in the musketeers, D'Artagnan
felt completely solitary. For a time the delightful
remembrance of Madame Bonancieux left on his character a
certain poetic tinge, perishable indeed; for like all other
recollections in this world, these impressions were, by
degrees, effaced. A garrison life is fatal even to the most
aristocratic organization; and imperceptibly, D'Artagnan,
always in the camp, always on horseback, always in garrison,
became (I know not how in the present age one would express
Twenty Years After |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Scena Secunda.
Enter Othello's Herald with a Proclamation.
Herald. It is Othello's pleasure, our Noble and Valiant
Generall. That vpon certaine tydings now arriu'd,
importing the meere perdition of the Turkish Fleete:
euery man put himselfe into Triumph. Some to daunce,
some to make Bonfires, each man, to what Sport and
Reuels his addition leads him. For besides these beneficiall
Newes, it is the Celebration of his Nuptiall. So
much was his pleasure should be proclaimed. All offices
are open, & there is full libertie of Feasting from this
Othello |
