| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: in those eyes that I could not sweep her off her feet by my
own emotion as I had unconsciously assumed would be the case.
It made me feel as, one might imagine, a man might feel who
loved a goddess--not a Venus, though! She did not resent my
attitude, did not repel it, did not in the least fear it, evidently.
There was not a shade of that timid withdrawal or pretty resistance
which are so--provocative.
"You see, dearest," she said, "you have to be patient with us.
We are not like the women of your country. We are Mothers, and
we are People, but we have not specialized in this line."
"We" and "we" and "we"--it was so hard to get her to be
Herland |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: proficisci iubet. Ipse eo pedestribus copiis contendit.
Erant eius modi fere situs oppidorum ut posita in extremis lingulis
promunturiisque neque pedibus aditum haberent, cum ex alto se acstus
incitavisset, quod [bis] accidit semper horarum XII spatio, neque navibus,
quod rursus minuente aestu naves in vadis adflictarentur. Ita utraque re
oppidorum oppugnatio impediebatur. Ac si quando magnitudine operis forte
superati, extruso mari aggere ac molibus atque his oppidi moenibus
adaequatis, suis fortunis desperare coeperant, magno numero navium
adpulso, cuius rei summam facultatem habebant, omnia sua deportabant seque
in proxima oppida recipiebant: ibi se rursus isdem oportunitatibus loci
defendebant. Haec eo facilius Inagnaln partem aestatis faciebant quod
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me--to
certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses
of the storm, at long intervals, I knew not whence. Overpowered
by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable,
I threw on my clothes with haste (for I felt that I should sleep
no more during the night,) and endeavoured to arouse myself from
the pitiable condition into which I had fallen, by pacing rapidly
to and fro through the apartment.
I had taken but few turns in this manner, when a light step
on an adjoining staircase arrested my attention. I presently
recognized it as that of Usher. In an instant afterwards he
The Fall of the House of Usher |
