| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: few lines will suffice to recapitulate what I have previously
explained.
Three circumstances seem to me to contribute most powerfully
to the maintenance of the democratic republic in the United
States.
The first is that Federal form of Government which the
Americans have adopted, and which enables the Union to combine
the power of a great empire with the security of a small State.
The second consists in those municipal institutions which
limit the despotism of the majority, and at the same time impart
a taste for freedom and a knowledge of the art of being free to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: unclothed. Afterwards he could not be sure about the boy, who
may have had some kind of a fringed belt and a pair of dark trunks
or trousers on. Wilbur was never subsequently seen alive and conscious
without complete and tightly buttoned attire, the disarrangement
or threatened disarrangement of which always seemed to fill him
with anger and alarm. His contrast with his squalid mother and
grandfather in this respect was thought very notable until the
horror of 1928 suggested the most valid of reasons.
The next
January gossips were mildly interested in the fact that 'Lavinny's
black brat' had commenced to talk, and at the age of only eleven
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: It brought him with a jerk to his feet, tossing away his cigarette.
His poor face was flushed. "See here--see here!"
"No, I won't; but I must leave you now," she went on as if not
hearing him.
"See here--see here!" He tried, from the bench, to take her hand
again.
But that definitely settled it for her: this would, after all, be
as bad as his asking her to supper. "You mustn't come with me--no,
no!"
He sank back, quite blank, as if she had pushed him. "I mayn't see
you home?"
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