| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: "Finally, it imparts to projectiles a velocity four times
superior to that of gunpowder. I will even add, that if we mix
it with one-eighth of its own weight of nitrate of potassium,
its expansive force is again considerably augmented."
"Will that be necessary?" asked the major.
"I think not," replied Barbicane. "So, then, in place of
1,600,000 pounds of powder, we shall have but 400,000 pounds of
fulminating cotton; and since we can, without danger, compress
500 pounds of cotton into twenty-seven cubic feet, the whole
quantity will not occupy a height of more than 180 feet within
the bore of the Columbiad. In this way the shot will have more
From the Earth to the Moon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: - or perhaps it's my state of mind - but I keep wishing for a pair
of gloves, when I haven't even a hat!"
When we reached the main road we sat down for a moment, and her
hair, which had been coming loose for some time, fell over her
shoulders in little waves that were most alluring. It seemed a
pity to twist it up again, but when I suggested this, cautiously,
she said it was troublesome and got in her eyes when it was loose.
So she gathered it up, while I held a row of little shell combs
and pins, and when it was done it was vastly becoming, too. Funny
about hair: a man never knows he has it until he begins to lose it,
but it's different with a girl. Something of the unconventional
The Man in Lower Ten |
