| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: hemisphere of equatorial ocean.
These cases of relationship, without identity, of the inhabitants of seas
now disjoined, and likewise of the past and present inhabitants of the
temperate lands of North America and Europe, are inexplicable on the theory
of creation. We cannot say that they have been created alike, in
correspondence with the nearly similar physical conditions of the areas;
for if we compare, for instance, certain parts of South America with the
southern continents of the Old World, we see countries closely
corresponding in all their physical conditions, but with their inhabitants
utterly dissimilar.
But we must return to our more immediate subject, the Glacial period. I am
On the Origin of Species |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: have been funny!"
"Funny!" cried Gaudissart. "Funny! Then your Monsieur Vernier has been
making fun of me!"
"Did he send you there?"
"Yes."
"Wife! wife! come here and listen. If Monsieur Vernier didn't take it
into his head to send this gentleman to talk to Margaritis!"
"What in the world did you say to each other, my dear, good Monsieur?"
said the wife. "Why, he's crazy!"
"He sold me two casks of wine."
"Did you buy them?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: read my thoughts on my ingenuous face.
"What you're going for is to save life, not to drown your boat's
crew for nothing," he growled severely in my ear. But as we shoved
off he leaned over and cried out: "It all rests on the power of
your arms, men. Give way for life!"
We made a race of it, and I would never have believed that a common
boat's crew of a merchantman could keep up so much determined
fierceness in the regular swing of their stroke. What our captain
had clearly perceived before we left had become plain to all of us
since. The issue of our enterprise hung on a hair above that abyss
of waters which will not give up its dead till the Day of Judgment.
The Mirror of the Sea |
