| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would
not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
It would be a famous good thing for us all."
"I cannot believe it."
"Oh! Lord, it would be the saving of thousands.
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed
in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate
wants help."
"And yet I have heard that there is a great deal
of wine drunk in Oxford."
"Oxford! There is no drinking at Oxford now,
Northanger Abbey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the paddock, and shooting with the long-bow at wildfowl, which,
when the east wind was straining, flew low overhead to pitch to
the lake in the forbidden precincts of the deer park beyond the
brow of the hill. More than once a brace or two of these
wildfowl, shot in their southward flight by the lads and cooked
by fat, good-natured Mother Joan, graced the rude mess-table of
the squires in the long hall, and even the toughest and fishiest
drake, so the fruit of their skill, had a savor that, somehow or
other, the daintiest fare lacked in after-years.
Then fall passed and winter came, bleak, cold, and dreary--not
winter as we know it nowadays, with warm fires and bright lights
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: begin to know I ought to feel sheepish and beat, but somehow I feel
cocky instead. I laugh and say, "Well, I am bound to break
something down" - and suddenly see. "Oho, there's the place; get
weight on there, and the belt won't slip." With much labour, on go
the belts again. "Now then, a spar thro' there and six men's
weight on; mind you're not carried away." - "Ay, ay, sir." But
evidently no one believes in the plan. "Hurrah, round she goes -
stick to your spar. All right, shut off steam." And the
difficulty is vanquished.
'This or such as this (not always quite so bad) occurs hour after
hour, while five hundred tons of coal are rattling down into the
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