| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: by a whole population. And who knows but that in this steady temperature,
in the depths of the
mines of Aberfoyle, as well as in those of Newcastle, Alloa, or Cardiff--
when their contents shall have been exhausted--who knows but that
the poorer classes of Great Britain will some day find a refuge?
CHAPTER VIII EXPLORING
AT Harry's call, James Starr, Madge, and Simon Ford entered
through the narrow orifice which put the Dochart pit in
communication with the new mine. They found themselves at
the beginning of a tolerably wide gallery. One might well believe
that it had been pierced by the hand of man, that the pick
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: how the religions, and especially Church Christianity,
originated.
But under the stress of his daily life he, a truthful man,
allowed a little falsehood to creep in. He said that in order to
do justice to an unreasonable thing one had to study the
unreasonable thing. It was a little falsehood, but it sunk him
into the big falsehood in which he was now caught.
Before putting to himself the question whether the orthodoxy in
which he was born and bred, and which every one expected him to
accept, and without which he could not continue his useful
occupation, contained the truth, he had already decided the
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: as your eye can reach. A raft, even a canoe?"
Nicholas and Nadia, grasping the bushes on the edge of
the cliff, bent over the water. The view they thus obtained
was extensive. At this place the Yenisei is not less than a
mile in width, and forms two arms, of unequal size, through
which the waters flow swiftly. Between these arms lie sev-
eral islands, covered with alders, willows, and poplars, look-
ing like verdant ships, anchored in the river. Beyond rise
the high hills of the Eastern shore, crowned with forests,
whose tops were then empurpled with light. The Yenisei
stretched on either side as far as the eye could reach. The
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