| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming.
We did not go fast, though the way was steeply downhill,
for w e had to take heavy rugs and wraps with us. We dared not
face the possibility of being left without warmth in the cold
and the snow. We had to take some of our provisions too,
for we were in a perfect desolation, and so far as we could see
through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of habitation.
When we had gone about a mile, I was tired with the heavy
walking and sat down to rest. Then we looked back and saw
where the clear line of Dracula's castle cut the sky.
For we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Without any further
prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with
Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in
destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with
him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick. They added that Snowball
had privately admitted to them that he had been Jones's secret agent for
years past. When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly
tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether
any other animal had anything to confess.
The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion
over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: where the fraud was manifest and stared them in the face.
'Here's about enough of this foolery!' said Davis. 'Stow back
the cases in the hold, Uncle, and get the broken crockery
overboard. Come with me,' he added to his co-adventurers, and
led the way back into the cabin.
Chapter 6. THE PARTNERS
Each took a side of the fixed table; it was the first time they
had sat down at it together; but now all sense of incongruity,
all memory of differences, was quite swept away by the presence
of the common ruin.
'Gentlemen,' said the captain, after a pause, and with very
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