| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: and before our meeting, which is fixed for nine o'clock. The rest of us
have already read everything, so when we meet in the study we shall all
be informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with this
terrible and mysterious enemy.
MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
30 September.--When we met in Dr. Seward's study two hours after dinner,
which had been at six o'clock, we unconsciously formed a sort of board
or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table,
to which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room.
He made me sit next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary.
Jonathan sat next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward,
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: atmosphere of the north, and enervates the moral energies of the
whole people.
The moment a foreigner ventures upon our soil, and utters a
natural repugnance to oppression, that moment he is made to feel
that there is little sympathy in this land for him. If he were
greeted with smiles before, he meets with frowns now; and it
shall go well with him if he be not subjected to that peculiarly
fining method of showing fealty to slavery, the assaults of a
mob.
Now, will any man tell me that such a state of things is natural,
and that such conduct on the part of the people of the north,
My Bondage and My Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: funeral service at the church, sir, no doubt?"
Schmucke looked at him as a dangerous madman might look before
striking a blow. La Sauvage put in a word.
"You ought to find somebody to look after all these things," she said.
"Yes----" the victim murmured at length.
"Shall I fetch M. Tabareau?--for you will have a good deal on your
hands before long. M. Tabareau is the most honest man in the quarter,
you see."
"Yes. Mennesir Dapareau! Somepody vas speaking of him chust now--"
said Schmucke, completely beaten.
"Very well. You can be quiet, sir, and give yourself up to grief, when
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