| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: To quiet in me my perturbed mind,
Opened her mouth, ere I did mine to ask,
And she began: "Thou makest thyself so dull
With false imagining, that thou seest not
What thou wouldst see if thou hadst shaken it off.
Thou art not upon earth, as thou believest;
But lightning, fleeing its appropriate site,
Ne'er ran as thou, who thitherward returnest."
If of my former doubt I was divested
By these brief little words more smiled than spoken,
I in a new one was the more ensnared;
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
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: afternoon, was Leary in the Scalon house, mopping it out for
unknown designs by the hands of an old woman, and proffering
strange threats of bloodshed. Scanlon and his pigs, the admiral
and his gun, Leary and his bombardment, - what a kettle of fish!
I dwell on the effect on Tamasese. Whatever the faults of Becker,
he was not timid; he had already braved so much for Mulinuu that I
cannot but think he might have continued to hold up his head even
after the outrage of the pigs, and that the weakness now shown
originated with the king. Late in the night, Blacklock was wakened
to receive a despatch addressed to Leary. "You have asked that I
and my government go away from Mulinuu, because you pretend a man
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: words would not come to Anastasio. His face, coated
with filth, unwashed for days, turned crimson, shining
with perspiration. Finally he decided to finish his toast
at all costs. "Well, I ain't got much to tell you, except
that we are pals. . . ."
Then, since everyone had applauded at the end of Luis
Cervantes' speech, Anastasio having finished, made a
sign, and the company clapped their hands in great gravi-
ty.
But everything turned out for the best, since his awk-
wardness inspired others. Manteca and Quail stood up
The Underdogs |
