| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: questioned her often, and she gave him an account of all
that was going on.
Whilst the blocks were thus drifting, curious phenomena
were taking place on the surface of the Baikal. Magnifi-
cent jets, from springs of boiling water, shot up from some
of those artesian wells which Nature has bored in the very
bed of the lake. These jets rose to a great height and
spread out in vapor, which was illuminated by the solar
rays, and almost immediately condensed by the cold. This
curious sight would have assuredly amazed a tourist travel-
ing in peaceful times on this Siberian sea.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: A villain is detected in a day.
CHORUS
To one who walketh warily his words
Commend themselves; swift counsels are not sure.
OEDIPUS
When with swift strides the stealthy plotter stalks
I must be quick too with my counterplot.
To wait his onset passively, for him
Is sure success, for me assured defeat.
CREON
What then's thy will? To banish me the land?
Oedipus Trilogy |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: amiable defences. The variety of pose necessitated by the corps
of 'Men' annoyed her to an altogether unreasonable degree. To
return to this life of ridiculous unreality--unconditional
capitulation to 'Conventionality' was an exasperating prospect.
Yet what else was there to do? You will understand, therefore,
that at times she was moody (and Mr. Hoopdriver respectfully
silent and attentive) and at times inclined to eloquent
denunciation of the existing order of things. She was a
Socialist, Hoopdriver learnt, and he gave a vague intimation that
he went further, intending, thereby, no less than the horrors of
anarchism. He would have owned up to the destruction of the
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