| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: them who had been overthrown!
So it was no lie! The Kaffirs were there! As I thought it, a fresh
horror filled my heart; perhaps their murdering work was already done
and they were departing.
The minute of suspense--or was it but seconds?--seemed an eternity. But
it ended at last. Now I was at the door in the high wall that enclosed
the outbuildings at the back of the house, and there, by an inspiration,
pulled up the mare--glad enough she was to stop, poor thing--for it
occurred to me that if I rode to the front I should very probably be
assegaied and of no further use. I tried the door, which was made of
stout stinkwood planks. By design, or accident, it had been left
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Alexander and Bonaparte. It struck him as a surprise that Alexander
treated Bonaparte as an equal and that the latter was quite at ease
with the Tsar, as if such relations with an Emperor were an everyday
matter to him.
Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites,
approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came
straight up to the crowd standing there. The crowd unexpectedly
found itself so close to the Emperors that Rostov, standing in the
front row, was afraid he might be recognized.
"Sire, I ask your permission to present the Legion of Honor to the
bravest of your soldiers," said a sharp, precise voice, articulating
War and Peace |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: next morning neither seems to have thought to rescue his shirt
from the wash until it was too late. My uncle made a painful
struggle--it was one of my business mornings--to recall name and
particulars.
"He was an aquarium-faced, long, blond sort of chap, George, with
glasses and a genteel accent," he said.
I was puzzled. "Aquarium-faced?"
"You know how they look at you. His stuff was soap, I'm pretty
nearly certain. And he had a name--And the thing was the
straightest Bit-of-All-right you ever. I was clear enough to
spot that..."
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