| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as
much in the secret as any, that the court was under many
difficulties concerning me. They apprehended my breaking loose;
that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine.
Sometimes they determined to starve me; or at least to shoot me
in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, which would soon
despatch me; but again they considered, that the stench of so
large a carcass might produce a plague in the metropolis, and
probably spread through the whole kingdom. In the midst of these
consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of
the great council-chamber, and two of them being admitted, gave
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: In their dwellings underground.
There rose a king in Scotland,
A fell man to his foes,
He smote the Picts in battle,
He hunted them like roes.
Over miles of the red mountain
He hunted as they fled,
And strewed the dwarfish bodies
Of the dying and the dead.
Summer came in the country,
Red was the heather bell;
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: cupful satisfied him."
"Your health!" said the portress, touching glasses with the Cardinal,
who was careful to have hers filled with the unboiled wine. Less
accomplished as a gourmet than the old beggar, Madame Perrache
perceived nothing in the insidious liquid (cold by the time she drank
it) to make her suspect its narcotic character; on the contrary, she
declared it was "velvet," and wished that her husband were there to
have a share in the treat. After a rather long gossip, the two women
separated. Then, with the cooked meat she had provided for herself,
and the remains of the Roussillon, Madame Cardinal made a repast which
she finished off with a siesta. Without mentioning the emotions of the
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