| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: them into the pan. Suddenly there came to him a premonition of danger. It
seemed a shadow had fallen upon him. But there was no shadow. His heart had
given a great jump up into his throat and was choking him. Then his blood
slowly chilled and he felt the sweat of his shirt cold against his flesh.
He did not spring up nor look around. He did not move. He was considering the
nature of the premonition he had received, trying to locate the source of the
mysterious force that had warned him, striving to sense the imperative
presence of the unseen thing that threatened him. There is an aura of things
hostile, made manifest by messengers refined for the senses to know; and this
aura he felt, but knew not how he felt it. His was the feeling as when a cloud
passes over the sun. It seemed that between him and life had passed something
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: eddies of the air. Gently raised by the currents that ascend from
the ground warmed by the sun, this thread wafts upwards, floats,
undulates, makes for its point of contact. At last, it breaks and
vanishes in the distance, carrying the spinstress hanging to it.
The Epeira with the three white crosses, the Spider who has
supplied us with these first data concerning the process of
dissemination, is endowed with a moderate maternal industry. As a
receptacle for the eggs, she weaves a mere pill of silk. Her work
is modest indeed beside the Banded Epeira's balloons. I looked to
these to supply me with fuller documents. I had laid up a store by
rearing some mothers during the autumn. So that nothing of
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: 'You knew the last line!' said Winston.
'Yes, I knew the last line. And now, I am afraid, it is time for you to go.
But wait. You had better let me give you one of these tablets.'
As Winston stood up O'Brien held out a hand. His powerful grip crushed
the bones of Winston's palm. At the door Winston looked back, but O'Brien
seemed already to be in process of putting him out of mind. He was waiting
with his hand on the switch that controlled the telescreen. Beyond him
Winston could see the writing-table with its green-shaded lamp and the
speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers. The incident was
closed. Within thirty seconds, it occurred to him, O'Brien would be back
at his interrupted and important work on behalf of the Party.
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