| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though
often and earnestly invited to it.
Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like
expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that
there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them
into practice.
But, as to my self, having been wearied out for many years with
offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly
despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal,
which, as it is wholly new, so it hath something solid and real,
of no expence and little trouble, full in our own power, and
A Modest Proposal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: adding, "Why, that will be within less than an hour, and the Baas Marais
is away."
"Yes," croaked Hans; "and Missie Marie--think of what the Red Kaffirs
will do with Missie Marie when their blood is up."
I thrust my fist through the window and struck the Hottentot's toad-like
face on which the starlight gleamed faintly.
"Dog!" I said, "saddle my mare and the roan horse and get your gun. In
two minutes I come. Be swift or I kill you."
"I go," he answered, and shot out into the night like a frightened
snake.
Then I began to dress, shouting as I dressed, till my father and the
Marie |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: The dried grass and underbrush caught fire, but we did
not notice it. Suddenly a great tree on the edge of
the open space burst into flames.
We looked at it with startled eyes. The heat of it
drove us back. Another tree caught, and another, and
then half a dozen. We were frightened. The monster
had broken loose. We crouched down in fear, while the
fire ate around the circle and hemmed us in. Into
Lop-Ear's eyes came the plaintive look that always
accompanied incomprehension, and I know that in my eyes
must have been the same look. We huddled, with our
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