| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: all probability, her mortal relics would never meet the eyes of
mortals. This species of instinctive feeling seemed to him of a
tenor with the whole course of her unhappy life, and most likely
to influence her when it drew to a conclusion.
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End of THE HIGHLAND WIDOW.
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MR. CROFTANGRY INTRODUCES ANOTHER TALE.
Together both on the high lawns appeared.
Under the opening eyelids of the morn
They drove afield. ELEGY ON LYCIDAS.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing
'Beasts of England', and receive their orders for the week; but there would
be no more debates.
In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the
animals were dismayed by this announcement. Several of them would have
protested if they could have found the right arguments. Even Boxer was
vaguely troubled. He set his ears back, shook his forelock several times,
and tried hard to marshal his thoughts; but in the end he could not think
of anything to say. Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more
articulate. Four young porkers in the front row uttered shrill squeals of
disapproval, and all four of them sprang to their feet and began speaking
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: would instruct and catechize him through long, hushed afternoons.
By this time the restoration of the house was finished, and those
who watched it wondered why one of the upper windows had been
made into a solid plank door. It was a window in the rear of the
east gable end, close against the hill; and no one could imagine
why a cleated wooden runway was built up to it from the ground.
About the period of this work's completion people noticed that
the old tool-house, tightly locked and windowlessly clapboarded
since Wilbur's birth, had been abandoned again. The door swung
listlessly open, and when Earl Sawyer once stepped within after
a cattle-selling call on Old Whateley he was quite discomposed
The Dunwich Horror |
