| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of
some peril?"
"You may say so, sir, indeed," returned the butler.
"It is well, then that we should be frank," said the other.
"We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast.
This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it?"
"Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled
up, that I could hardly swear to that," was the answer. "But if
you mean, was it Mr. Hyde?--why, yes, I think it was!" You see,
it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light
way with it; and then who else could have got in by the laboratory
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: 'If time were money,' he said, handling his snuff-box, 'I would
compound with my creditors, and give them--let me see--how much a
day? There's my nap after dinner--an hour--they're extremely
welcome to that, and to make the most of it. In the morning,
between my breakfast and the paper, I could spare them another
hour; in the evening before dinner say another. Three hours a day.
They might pay themselves in calls, with interest, in twelve
months. I think I shall propose it to them. Ah, my centaur, are
you there?'
'Here I am,' replied Hugh, striding in, followed by a dog, as rough
and sullen as himself; 'and trouble enough I've had to get here.
Barnaby Rudge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: She nodded her head vaguely over her shoulder and turned to me
again. "Well, suppose it was an accident. Here you are! Now
you're here, what are you going to do? You're young. Is it to
be Parliament? heard some men the other day talking about you.
Before I knew you were you. They said that was what you ought to
do."...
She put me through my intentions with a close and vital
curiosity. It was just as she had tried to imagine me a soldier
and place me years ago. She made me feel more planless and
incidental than ever. "You want to make a flying-machine," she
pursued, "and when you fly? What then? Would it be for
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