| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: utmost pace at his antagonist, firing his machine gun at him as
he came. If he missed in this hysterical lunge, he went on
down.... This does not strike the Allied aviator as very
brilliant. A gentleman of that sort can sooner or later be
caught on the rise by going for him over the German
lines.
The first phase, then, of the highest grade offensive, the
ultimate development of war regardless of expense, is the
clearance of the air. Such German machines as are up are put
down by fighting aviators. These last fly high; in the clear
blue of the early morning they look exactly like gnats; some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: menced firing. Belabored by their officers, they
began to move forward. The regiment, involved
like a cart involved in mud and muddle, started
unevenly with many jolts and jerks. The men
stopped now every few paces to fire and load,
and in this manner moved slowly on from trees
to trees.
The flaming opposition in their front grew
with their advance until it seemed that all for-
ward ways were barred by the thin leaping
tongues, and off to the right an ominous demon-
The Red Badge of Courage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: of others, will tend to be sharply defined. Moreover, each species on the
confines of its range, where it exists in lessened numbers, will, during
fluctuations in the number of its enemies or of its prey, or in the
seasons, be extremely liable to utter extermination; and thus its
geographical range will come to be still more sharply defined.
If I am right in believing that allied or representative species, when
inhabiting a continuous area, are generally so distributed that each has a
wide range, with a comparatively narrow neutral territory between them, in
which they become rather suddenly rarer and rarer; then, as varieties do
not essentially differ from species, the same rule will probably apply to
both; and if we in imagination adapt a varying species to a very large
On the Origin of Species |
