| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: out,' he gasped - 'this bag to Portman Square. Oh,
compassionate woman, as you hope to be saved, as you are a
mother, in the name of your babes that wait to welcome you at
home, oh, take this bag to Portman Square! I have a mother,
too,' he added, with a broken voice. 'Number 19, Portman
Square.'
I suppose he had expressed himself with too much energy of
voice; for the woman was plainly taken with a certain fear of
him. 'Poor gentleman!' said she. 'If I were you, I would go
home.' And she left him standing there in his distress.
'Home!' thought M'Guire, 'what a derision!' What home was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: that three men should thus bully nineteen, and receive no
punishment at all.
The Spaniards, indeed, despised them, and especially, having thus
disarmed them, made light of their threatenings; but the two
Englishmen resolved to have their remedy against them, what pains
soever it cost to find them out. But the Spaniards interposed here
too, and told them that as they had disarmed them, they could not
consent that they (the two) should pursue them with firearms, and
perhaps kill them. "But," said the grave Spaniard, who was their
governor, "we will endeavour to make them do you justice, if you
will leave it to us: for there is no doubt but they will come to
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: stood open and showed grimy interiors, and dirty ill-clad children
played in the kennel.
We passed a sickly-looking girl with a sallow face, who dragged her
limbs and peered at us dimly with painful eyes. She stood back, as
partly blinded people will do, to allow us to pass, although there
was plenty of room for us.
I glanced back at her.
"THAT'S ploombism " said my uncle casually.
"What?" said I.
"Ploombism. And the other day I saw a fool of a girl, and what
d'you think? She'd got a basin that hadn't been fired, a cracked
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