| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: That Tancred had the Pagan's blood to spill,
Nor could that quench his wrath or calm his ire
If other hand his foe should foil or kill.
He saved him with his shield, and cried "Retire!"
To all he met, "and do this knight none ill:"
And thus defending gainst his friends his foe,
Through thousand angry weapons safe they go.
VII
They left the city, and they left behind
Godfredo's camp, and far beyond it passed,
And came where into creeks and bosoms blind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: plainly enough. In costume, and in all the differences of
texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other,
these people of the future were alike. And the children seemed
to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents. I judged,
then, that the children of that time were extremely precocious,
physically at least, and I found afterwards abundant verification
of my opinion.
`Seeing the ease and security in which these people were
living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after
all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the
softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the
The Time Machine |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: the Ferndale--" the lady that mustn't be disturbed "of the old ship-
keeper--may not have been Flora."
"Well, I do know," he said, "if only because I have been keeping in
touch with Mr. Powell."
"You have!" I cried. "This is the first I hear of it. And since
when?"
"Why, since the first day. You went up to town leaving me in the
inn. I slept ashore. In the morning Mr. Powell came in for
breakfast; and after the first awkwardness of meeting a man you have
been yarning with over-night had worn off, we discovered a liking
for each other."
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