| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory
of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in
the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching
arithmetic to the deaf-and-dumb; and with that, the sandwich
being then no more, explicuit valde feliciter. A moment later the
pair issued forth on the King's Road.
'Michael, I said his uncle, 'the reason that I am here is because
I cannot endure those nephews of mine. I find them intolerable.'
'I daresay you do,' assented Michael, 'I never could stand them
for a moment.'
'They wouldn't let me speak,' continued the old gentleman
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: me rather than the other?"
"I would choose neither," replied Dejah Thoris, "even were I
free to choose, as you know well I am not."
"You ARE free!" he cried. "John Carter, Prince of Helium, is dead."
"I know better than that; but even were he dead, and I must
needs choose another mate, it should be a plant man or a great
white ape in preference to either Matai Shang or you, black calot,"
she answered with a sneer of contempt.
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: little enough. Had she not nearly killed us both an hour ago?
"But now I shall sing to you, and you will forgive me. I am in
voice to-night. Is it not so, Yvonne?"
"But, Madame!"
The ecstasy of Yvonne was almost pathetic.
The ceremony with which we were installed in the Royal box was
worthy of the Regent himself. But then Madame was a very great
lady. The lights in the house did not go down for a minute, and
I peered over the rim of the balcony to see if I could locate
Berry and Co. Suddenly I saw Jill, and Berry next to her. He
was staring straight at the Royal box, and his face was a study.
The Brother of Daphne |
