| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: mentally, and physically, that I could not think beyond the point
at which he had left me. The black window stared at me like an eye.
At last with an effort I put out the light and got into the hammock.
Very soon I was asleep.
XV. CONCERNING THE BEAST FOLK.
I WOKE early. Moreau's explanation stood before my mind,
clear and definite, from the moment of my awakening. I got out
of the hammock and went to the door to assure myself that the key
was turned. Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.
That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters,
mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty
The Island of Doctor Moreau |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid
world. As he turned across the sand creek, he looked up at
the North Star and smiled, as if there were an understanding
between them. His mother scolded him for being late for supper.
V
On Sunday afternoon Joe Vavrika, in his shirt sleeves arid
carpet slippers, was sitting in his garden, smoking a long-tasseled
porcelain pipe with a hunting scene painted on the bowl. Clara sat
under the cherry tree, reading aloud to him from the, weekly
Bohemian papers. She had worn a white muslin dress under her
riding habit, and the leaves of the cherry tree threw a pattern of
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: 51, the population to 62,831,900, and the area of the States,
3,602,990 square miles. This does not include the Philippine
Islands, Hawaii, or Porto Rico. A conservative estimate of the
population of the Philippine Islands is 8,000,000; that of
Hawaii, by the census of 1897, was given at 109,020; and the
present estimated population of Porto Rico is 900,000. The area
of the Philippine Islands is about 120,000 square miles, that of
Hawaii is 6,740 square miles, and the area of Porto Rico is about
3,600 square miles.]]
It is indeed easy to discover different interests in the
different parts of the Union, but I am unacquainted with any
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