| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: looked his surprise, but his expression was suddenly changed
to one of malevolent cunning and gratification. He turned
toward Prince Peter with a few low-whispered words. A look
of relief crossed the face of the Blentz prince.
"You appear to know the gentleman," said the general
who had been conducting Barney's examination. "He has
been arrested as a Serbian spy, and military passes in your
name were found upon his person together with the papers
of an American newspaper correspondent, which he claims
to be. He is charged with being Stefan Drontoff, whom we
long have been anxious to apprehend. Do you chance to
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: what that has to do with it.'
`In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, `they make the beds
too soft--so that the flowers are always asleep.'
This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to
know it. `I never thought of that before!' she said.
`It's MY opinion that you never think AT ALL,' the Rose said in
a rather severe tone.
`I never saw anybody that looked stupider,' a Violet said, so
suddenly, that Alice quite jumped; for it hadn't spoken before.
`Hold YOUR tongue!' cried the Tiger-lily. `As if YOU ever saw
anybody! You keep your head under the leaves, and snore away
Through the Looking-Glass |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: the meadows. The grass which grew on them was such as grew to the
length of ten or twelve feet, rising up to a good height and then
taking root again, and was of so rich a nature as to answer very
well such an extravagant rent.
The reason they gave for this was the extraordinary richness of the
soil, made so, as above, by the falling or washing of the rains
from the hills adjacent, by which, though no other land thereabouts
had such a kind of grass, yet all other meadows and low grounds of
the valley were extremely rich in proportion.
There are abundance of good families, and of very ancient lines in
the neighbourhood of this town of Dorchester, as the Napiers, the
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