| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: until the earth shook. The bear had been attacked in the rear
by some other mighty beast, and the two were now locked in a
titanic struggle for supremacy. With brief respites, during
which we could hear the labored breathing of the contestants,
the battle continued for the better part of an hour until the
sounds of combat grew gradually less and finally ceased entirely.
At Ajor's suggestion, made by signs and a few of the words we
knew in common, I moved the fire directly to the entrance to
the cave so that a beast would have to pass directly through
the flames to reach us, and then we sat and waited for the
victor of the battle to come and claim his reward; but though
The People That Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: l'alphabet, or else all sorts of Ivanoffs, Simenoffs, Nikitines,
or else Ivanenkos, Simonenkos, Nikitenkos, pour varier. Des gens
de l'autre monde. Well, it is all the same. I'll tell my husband,
he knows them. He knows all sorts of people. I'll tell him, but
you will have to explain, he never understands me. Whatever I may
say, he always maintains he does not understand it. C'est un
parti pris, every one understands but only not he."
At this moment a footman with stockinged legs came in with a note
on a silver platter.
"There now, from Aline herself. You'll have a chance of hearing
Kiesewetter."
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: order to procure an easy subsistence. Universal suffrage does
therefore, in point of fact, invest the poor with the government
of society.
The disastrous influence which popular authority may
sometimes exercise upon the finances of a State was very clearly
seen in some of the democratic republics of antiquity, in which
the public treasure was exhausted in order to relieve indigent
citizens, or to supply the games and theatrical amusements of the
populace. It is true that the representative system was then
very imperfectly known, and that, at the present time, the
influence of popular passion is less felt in the conduct of
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