| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: others passed the night there. Tents had been set up in which drinking
went on. Many gained large sums by hiring out bows.
Then all these crucified corpses were left upright, looking like so
many red statues on the tombs, and the excitement even spread to the
people of Malqua, who were the descendants of the aboriginal families,
and were usually indifferent to the affairs of their country. Out of
gratitude for the pleasure it had been giving them they now interested
themselves in its fortunes, and felt that they were Carthaginians, and
the Ancients thought it a clever thing to have thus blended the entire
people in a single act of vengeance.
The sanction of the gods was not wanting; for crows alighted from all
Salammbo |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Mark- I say, instantly; and carry it so
As I have set it down.
Capt. I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;
If it be man's work, I'll do't. Exit.
Flourish. Enter Albany, Goneril, Regan, Soldiers.
Alb. Sir, you have show'd to-day your valiant strain,
And fortune led you well. You have the captives
Who were the opposites of this day's strife.
We do require them of you, so to use them
As we shall find their merits and our safety
May equally determine.
King Lear |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them as a man could be to a woman. I don't care any-
thing about his clothes, Daddy; Bridge is a gentleman
born and raised--anyone could tell it after half an hour
with him."
Bridge sat on the front seat with the driver and one
of Burton's men, while Burton, sitting in the back seat
next to the girl, could not but overhear her conversa-
tion.
"You are right," he said. "Bridge, as you call him, is a
gentleman. He comes of one of the finest families of Vir-
ginia and one of the wealthiest. You need have no
The Oakdale Affair |
