| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: he bawled again. "Wantje. Some one to see you. Surprisin'."
There came an inaudible reply, and a sudden loud bump over our
heads as of some article of domestic utility pettishly flung
aside, then the cautious steps of someone descending the twist,
and then my aunt appeared in the doorway with her hand upon the
jamb.
"It's Aunt Ponderevo," cried my uncle. "George's wife--and she's
brought over her son!" His eye roamed about the room. He darted
to the bureau with a sudden impulse, and turned the sheet about
the patent flat face down. Then he waved his glasses at us, "You
know, Susan, my elder brother George. I told you about 'im lots
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: trouble; I already knew that you were a Skunk."
A Flourishing Industry
"ARE the industries of this country in a flourishing condition?"
asked a Traveller from a Foreign Land of the first man he met in
America.
"Splendid!" said the Man. "I have more orders than I can fill."
"What is your business?" the Traveller from a Foreign Land
inquired.
The Man replied, "I make boxing-gloves for the tongues of
pugilists."
The Self-Made Monkey
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: form of Mrs. Hanson's brother, Irvine Lovelands. I spell
Irvine by guess; for I could get no information on the
subject, just as I could never find out, in spite of many
inquiries, whether or not Rufe was a contraction for Rufus.
They were all cheerfully at sea about their names in that
generation. And this is surely the more notable where the
names are all so strange, and even the family names appear to
have been coined. At one time, at least, the ancestors of
all these Alvins and Alvas, Loveinas, Lovelands, and
Breedloves, must have taken serious council and found a
certain poetry in these denominations; that must have been,
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