| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tion to Count Zellerndorf of Austria."
"You may be assured that we shall never forget," replied
another voice that Barney recognized at once as belonging
to Prince Peter of Blentz, the one time regent of Lutha.
"It is not for myself," continued Count Zellerndorf, "that I
crave your gratitude, but for my emperor. You may do
much to win his undying gratitude, while for yourselves
you may win to almost any height with the friendship of
Austria behind you. I am sure that should any accident,
which God forfend, deprive Lutha of her king, none would
make a more welcome successor in the eyes of Austria than
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: mouth. I brand them for renegades, because most of them have been
sailors in their time. As if the infirmities of old age - the gray
hair, the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, and the knotted
veins of the hands - were the symptoms of moral poison, they prowl
about the quays with an underhand air of gloating over the broken
spirit of noble captives. They want more fenders, more breasting-
ropes; they want more springs, more shackles, more fetters; they
want to make ships with volatile souls as motionless as square
blocks of stone. They stand on the mud of pavements, these
degraded sea-dogs, with long lines of railway-trucks clanking their
couplings behind their backs, and run malevolent glances over your
The Mirror of the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: of the Bush Street Theatre, and horsewhipped me properly. Now,
just think of that"--and he laughed as though it was the best kind
of a joke.
"But," hazarded Blix, "don't you find it rather dull out here--
lonesome? I should think you would want to have some one with you
to keep you company--to--to do your cooking for you?"
But Condy, ignoring her diplomacy and thinking only of possible
stories, blundered off upon another track.
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