| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: Then Van Helsing said, placing his hand tenderly on Mrs. Harker's head,
"And now, Madam Mina, poor dear, dear, Madam Mina, tell us exactly
what happened. God knows that I do not want that you be pained,
but it is need that we know all. For now more than ever has
all work to be done quick and sharp, and in deadly earnest.
The day is close to us that must end all, if it may be so,
and now is the chance that we may live and learn."
The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves
as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower
and lower still on his breast. Then she raised her head proudly,
and held out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his,
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: difficulty, if also a labour of love. For however well acquainted
I may be with the researches and discoveries of that great
master--however numerous the illustrations which occur to me of the
loftiness of Faraday's character and the beauty of his life--still
to grasp him and his researches as a whole; to seize upon the ideas
which guided him, and connected them; to gain entrance into that
strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world--
this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid
the distraction of duties of another kind. That I should at one
period or another speak to you regarding Faraday and his work is
natural, if not inevitable; but I did not expect to be called upon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: "Quite seriously."
"And can you use that tool in my presence?"
"If it will interest you."
"And show me how they calculated the initiatory speed of our car?"
"Yes, my worthy friend; taking into consideration all the
elements of the problem, the distance from the center of the
earth to the center of the moon, of the radius of the earth, of
its bulk, and of the bulk of the moon, I can tell exactly what
ought to be the initiatory speed of the projectile, and that by
a simple formula."
"Let us see."
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