| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: female voices. In about three minutes more something rattled, the
gate opened, and a sergeant, with his cloak thrown over his
shoulders, stepped out of the darkness into the lamplight.
The sergeant was not as strict as the sentinel, but he was
extremely inquisitive. He insisted on knowing what Nekhludoff
wanted the officer for, and who he was, evidently scenting his
booty and anxious not to let it escape. Nekhludoff said he had
come on special business, and would show his gratitude, and would
the sergeant take a note for him to the officer. The sergeant
took the note, nodded, and went away. Some time after the gate
rattled again, and women carrying baskets, boxes, jugs and sacks
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: contains no events very uncommon, may be of use
to young men who are in too much haste to trust
their own prudence, and quit the wing of protection
before they are able to shift for themselves.
When he first settled in London, he was so much
bewildered in the enormous extent of the town, so
confounded by incessant noise, and crowds, and
hurry, and so terrified by rural narratives of the arts
of sharpers, the rudeness of the populace, malignity
of porters, and treachery of coachmen, that he was
afraid to go beyond the door without an attendant,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: extraordinary ``snake story'' taken from An Actor
Abroad, which Edmund Leathes published in
1880:
I will here relate the story of a sad
death--I might feel inclined to call it
suicide--which occurred in Melbourne
shortly before my arrival in the colonies.
About a year previous to the time of which
I am now writing, a gentleman of birth
and education, a Cambridge B. A., a barrister
by profession and a literary man by
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
