| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: bullet was entering his brain.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn
what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless
misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!
Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all
right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won
the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
THE END
APPENDIX.
The Principles of Newspeak
Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet
1984 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: that evening was so much exaggerated and embellished and twisted out
of all knowledge, that the poet became the hero of the hour. While
this storm in a teacup raged on high, a few drops fell among the
bourgeoisie; young men looked enviously after Lucien as he passed on
his way through Beaulieu, and he overheard chance phrases that filled
him with conceit.
"There is a lucky young fellow!" said an attorney's clerk, named
Petit-Claud, a plain-featured youth who had been at school with
Lucien, and treated him with small, patronizing airs.
"Yes, he certainly is," answered one of the young men who had been
present on the occasion of the reading; "he is a good-looking fellow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: I looked around with a dizzy attempt at nonchalance. "Even if it
is," I remonstrated, "surely you don't suppose for a moment that
I know anything about it!"
The amateur detective elbowed his way in. He had a scrap of
transparent paper in his hand, and a pencil.
"I would like permission to trace the stains," he began eagerly.
"Also" - to me - "if you will kindly jab your finger with a
pin - needle - anything - "
"If you don't keep out of this," the conductor said savagely, "I
will do some jabbing myself. As for you, sir - " he turned to me.
I was absolutely innocent, but I knew that I presented a typical
The Man in Lower Ten |
