| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: curious to see any of these effusions, I will favour him with one
short specimen: cold and languid as the lines may seem, it was
almost a passion of grief to which they owed their being:-
Oh, they have robbed me of the hope
My spirit held so dear;
They will not let me hear that voice
My soul delights to hear.
They will not let me see that face
I so delight to see;
And they have taken all thy smiles,
And all thy love from me.
Agnes Grey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: more; the way our sickness takes the predisposed. And the news
flies, and the tongues wag, and fists are shaken. Pot boil and
caldron bubble!
Within the memory of man, the white people of Apia lay in the worst
squalor of degradation. They are now unspeakably improved, both
men and women. To-day they must be called a more than fairly
respectable population, and a much more than fairly intelligent.
The whole would probably not fill the ranks of even an English
half-battalion, yet there are a surprising number above the average
in sense, knowledge, and manners. The trouble (for Samoa) is that
they are all here after a livelihood. Some are sharp
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking
at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity,
for this was my first glimpse of the world.
"`That's a rather pretty eye,'" remarked the Munchkin who was
watching the farmer. "`Blue paint is just the color for eyes.'
"`I think I'll make the other a little bigger,'" said the
farmer. And when the second eye was done I could see much better
than before. Then he made my nose and my mouth. But I did not
speak, because at that time I didn't know what a mouth was for.
I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs;
and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud,
The Wizard of Oz |
