| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: etiquette, government, law, the police, money, and medicine were
his chief interests - things vitally important to himself as a king
and the father of his people. It was my part not only to supply
new information, but to correct the old. 'My patha he tell me,' or
'White man he tell me,' would be his constant beginning; 'You think
he lie?' Sometimes I thought he did. Tembinok' once brought me a
difficulty of this kind, which I was long of comprehending. A
schooner captain had told him of Captain Cook; the king was much
interested in the story; and turned for more information - not to
Mr. Stephen's Dictionary, not to the BRITANNICA, but to the Bible
in the Gilbert Island version (which consists chiefly of the New
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: I'm sure,--by the Emperor."
"What! are you decorated?" cried Oscar. "Why don't you wear your
cross?"
"The cross of 'ceux-ci'? No, thank you! Besides, what man of any
breeding would wear his decorations in travelling? There's monsieur,"
he said, motioning to the Comte de Serizy. "I'll bet whatever you
like--"
"Betting whatever you like means, in France, betting nothing at all,"
said Mistigris's master.
"I'll bet whatever you like," repeated Georges, incisively, "that
monsieur here is covered with stars."
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: my waking days, this life I am living now, became a faded, far-away
dream, a drab setting, the cover of the book."
He thought.
"I could tell you all, tell you every little thing in the dream,
but as to what I did in the daytime--no. I could not tell--I do not
remember. My memory--my memory has gone. The business of life
slips from me--"
He leant forward, and pressed his hands upon his eyes. For a long
time he said nothing.
"And then?" said I.
"The war burst like a hurricane."
|
