| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: you."
He related his adventure with Clarina and explained his position. To
Vendramin Emilio's despair seemed so nearly allied to madness that he
promised to cure him completely if only he would give him /carte
blanche/ to deal with Massimilla. This ray of hope came just in time
to save Emilio from drowning himself that night; for, indeed, as he
remembered the singer, he felt a horrible wish to go back to her.
The two friends then went to an inner room at Florian's, where they
listened to the conversation of some of the superior men of the town,
who discoursed the subjects of the day. The most interesting of these
were, in the first place, the eccentricities of Lord Byron, of whom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: and meanwhile, with an increasing self-confidence, that council
went on governing....
On this first evening of all the council's gatherings, after King
Egbert had talked for a long time and drunken and praised very
abundantly the simple red wine of the country that Leblanc had
procured for them, he fathered about him a group of congenial
spirits and fell into a discourse upon simplicity, praising it
above all things and declaring that the ultimate aim of art,
religion, philosophy, and science alike was to simplify. He
instanced himself as a devotee to simplicity. And Leblanc he
instanced as a crowning instance of the splendour of this
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: responsible, but his friends had been killed, but years of
extortion and oppression had wrung money from all the San
Joaquin, money that had made possible this very scene in which he
found himself. Because Magnus had been beggared, Gerard had
become Railroad King; because the farmers of the valley were
poor, these men were rich.
The fancy grew big in his mind, distorted, caricatured, terrible.
Because the farmers had been killed at the irrigation ditch,
these others, Gerard and his family, fed full. They fattened on
the blood of the People, on the blood of the men who had been
killed at the ditch. It was a half-ludicrous, half-horrible "dog
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