| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: such solitude, she was led to create for herself a really desperate
amusement.
A few steps from the Hotel de la Poste is a bridge across the Aube; a
path leads down beside it, by a steep incline, to the water's edge,
which, being hidden from the roadway above and little frequented,
offers peace and solitude to whoever may like to dream there to the
sound of the rippling current. Mademoiselle Antonia at first took a
book with her; but books not being, as she says, in her line, she
looked about for other ways of killing her time, and bethought herself
of fishing, for which amusement the landlord of the inn supplied her
with a rod. Much pleased with her first successes, the pretty exile
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: insect-jointed limbs shrivelled and white. The eyes stared down at me with
a strange intensity, and the lower part of the swollen globe was wrinkled.
Ineffectual-looking little hand-tentacles steadied this shape on the
throne. ...
"It was great. It was pitiful. One forgot the hall and the crowd.
"I ascended the staircase by jerks. It seemed to me that this darkly
glowing brain case above us spread over me, and took more and more of the
whole effect into itself as I drew nearer. The tiers of attendants and
helpers grouped about their master seemed to dwindle and fade into the
night. I saw that shadowy attendants were busy spraying that great brain
with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining it. For my own part, I
The First Men In The Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: discourse to the Indians.
"Chieftains, warriors, maidens, children of the forest, listen, and your ears
shall hear no lie. I am come from where the sun rises to tell you of the Great
Spirit of the white man.
"Many, many moons ago, as many as blades of grass grow on yonder plain, the
Great Spirit of whom I shall speak created the world. He made the sparkling
lakes and swift rivers, the boundless plains and tangled forests, over which
He caused the sun to shine and the rain to fall. He gave life to the kingly
elk, the graceful deer, the rolling bison, the bear, the fox--all the beasts
and birds and fishes. But He was not content for nothing He made was perfect
in His sight. He created the white man in His own image, and from this first
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