| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: pedestrian who makes fun of others to whom some street fatality has
happened, who laughs at the muddy women, and makes grimaces at those
of either sex who are looking from the windows; and the silent being
who gazes from floor to floor; and the working-man, armed with a
satchel or a paper bundle, who is estimating the rain as a profit or
loss; and the good-natured fugitive, who arrives like a shot
exclaiming, "Ah! what weather, messieurs, what weather!" and bows to
every one; and, finally, the true /bourgeois/ of Paris, with his
unfailing umbrella, an expert in showers, who foresaw this particular
one, but would come out in spite of his wife; this one takes a seat in
the porter's chair. According to individual character, each member of
Ferragus |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: below, and I came away. Through the Land of the Great Slave, down
the Valley of the Mackenzie to the never-opening ice, over the
White Rockies, past the Great Curve of the Yukon, even to this
place did I come. And from that day to this, yours is the first
face of my father's people I have looked upon. May it be the
last! These people, which are my people, are a simple folk, and I
have been raised to honor among them. My word is their law, and
their priests but do my bidding, else would I not suffer them.
When I speak for them I speak for myself. We ask to be let alone.
We do not want your kind. If we permit you to sit by our fires,
after you will come your church, your priests, and your gods. And
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