| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Perhaps he would accept."
"Perhaps?"
"Yes, if your majesty herself should beg him to accept."
"He must be indeed a strange man. Well, we will reflect and
perhaps we will beg him. Are you satisfied, sir?"
"There is one thing the queen has not signed -- her assent
to the treaty."
"Of what use to-day? I will sign it to-morrow."
"I can assure her majesty that if she does not sign to-day
she will not have time to sign to-morrow. Consent, then, I
beg you, madame, to write at the bottom of this schedule,
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: the earth.
And Perseus feared to go inland, but flew along the shore
above the sea; and he went on all the day, and the sky was
black with smoke; and he went on all the night, and the sky
was red with flame.
And at the dawn of day he looked toward the cliffs; and at
the water's edge, under a black rock, he saw a white image
stand.
'This,' thought he, 'must surely be the statue of some sea-
God; I will go near and see what kind of Gods these
barbarians worship.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: other leg like a boy on a gate and looking at me very straight with
his shining eyes. I was confounded I tell you. It made me sick to
hear him imply that somebody would make a report against him.
"Oh!" I asked shocked, "who would think of such a scurvy trick,
sir?" I was half disgusted with him for having the mere notion of
it.
"Who?" says he, speaking very low. "Anybody. One of the office
messengers maybe. I've risen to be the Senior of this office and we
are all very good friends here, but don't you think that my
colleague that sits next to me wouldn't like to go up to this desk
by the window four years in advance of the regulation time? Or even
Chance |
