| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: such as Eustachius, himself an able discoverer, could join in the
cry, it is no wonder if a lower soul, like that of Sylvius, led it
open-mouthed. He was a mean, covetous, bad man, as George Bachanan
well knew; and, according to his nature, he wrote a furious book--
"Ad Vesani calumnias depulsandas." The punning change of Vesalius
into Vesanus (madman) was but a fair and gentle stroke for a
polemic, in days in which those who could not kill their enemies
with steel or powder, held themselves justified in doing so, if
possible, by vituperation, calumny, and every engine of moral
torture. But a far more terrible weapon, and one which made
Vesalius rage, and it may be for once in his life tremble, was the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: The most complete cases of aggravated idiocy were, to his mind,
rampant upon the front platforms of all the street cars. At first
his tongue strove with these beings, but he eventually was superior.
He became immured like an African cow. In him grew a majestic contempt
for those strings of street cars that followed him like intent bugs.
He fell into the habit, when starting on a long journey, of
fixing his eye on a high and distant object, commanding his horses
to begin, and then going into a sort of a trance of observation.
Multitudes of drivers might howl in his rear, and passengers might
load him with opprobrium, he would not awaken until some blue
policeman turned red and began to frenziedly tear bridles and beat
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of Torn does not war upon women?'"
Presently the conversation turned to other subjects
and Norman of Torn heard no more of himself during
that evening.
His stay at the castle of Stutevill was drawn out to
three days, and then, on the third day, as he sat with
Bertrade de Montfort in an embrasure of the south
tower of the old castle, he spoke once more of the
necessity for leaving and once more she urged him to
remain.
"To be with you, Bertrade of Montfort," he said
The Outlaw of Torn |
