| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: regarded as proved that these majorities are not always
legitimately obtained. Non-Communist delegates do
undoubtedly find every kind of difficulty put in their way by
the rather Jesuitical adherents of the faith. But. no matter
how these majorities are obtained, the result is that when the
Communist Party has made up its mind on any subject, it is
so certain of being able to carry its point that the calling
together of the All-Russian Executive Committee is merely a
theatrical demonstration of the fact that it can do what it
likes. When it does meet, the Communists allow the
microscopical opposition great liberty of speech, listen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: blue eyes with long eyelashes, or the upturned nose with little
freckles of the girl he had been seeing in his mind. The young
man, still in the habit of blurting out his first impression, said,
"Gosh, you've changed."
"No," said his new wife. "The only thing that's changed is that now
you can see. Oh, and you no longer have a bump on your nose."
"But where's your blonde hair?" the young man asked.
"My hair has always been this color," the girl said, fingering her
chestnut tresses.
"But you look so different," the young man said, still confused.
"When you looked at me before," the girl explained, "you saw only
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: when I went away, she gave me her hand unasked, and I could not
but mark, by a respectful and gentle pressure, that I was
sensible of the favour, and grateful for it. My modest
demonstration kindled a little merry smile on her countenance; I
thought her almost charming. During the remainder of the
evening, my mind was full of impatience for the afternoon of the
next day to arrive, that I might see her again.
I was not disappointed, for she sat in the class during the whole
of my subsequent lesson, and often looked at me almost with
affection. At four o'clock she accompanied me out of the
schoolroom, asking with solicitude after my health, then scolding
The Professor |
