| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: I shall tackle SAN FRANCISCO for you. Then the tide of work will
fairly bury me, lost to view and hope. You have no idea what it
costs me to wring out my work now. I have certainly been a
fortnight over this Romance, sometimes five hours a day; and yet it
is about my usual length - eight pages or so, and would be a d-d
sight the better for another curry. But I do not think I can
honestly re-write it all; so I call it done, and shall only
straighten words in a revision currently.
I had meant to go on for a great while, and say all manner of
entertaining things. But all's gone. I am now an idiot. - Yours
ever,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: the banked darknesses of cumulus that hid the world, ready to
plunge at once into their wet obscurities should some hostile
flier range into vision. The tense young steersman divided his
attention between the guiding stars above and the level, tumbled
surfaces of the vapour strata that hid the world below. Over
great spaces those banks lay as even as a frozen lava-flow and
almost as still, and then they were rent by ragged areas of
translucency, pierced by clear chasms, so that dim patches of the
land below gleamed remotely through abysses. Once he saw quite
distinctly the plan of a big railway station outlined in lamps
and signals, and once the flames of a burning rick showing livid
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: The plain duty that will be understood by the proprietor of land and
of every sort of general need and service, so soon as he becomes
aware of God, is so to administer his possessions as to achieve the
maximum of possible efficiency, the most generous output, and the
least private profit. He may set aside a salary for his
maintenance; the rest he must deal with like a zealous public
official. And if he perceives that the affair could be better
administered by other hands than his own, then it is his business to
get it into those hands with the smallest delay and the least profit
to himself. . . .
The rights and wrongs of human equity are very different from right
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