| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: breakfasted?' `Faith, no.' `Well, here is a pate that will
be ready for you, with a bottle of old Burgundy.' So, you
see, my lord, since I am hungry, I would, with your
highness's leave ---- " And La Ramee bent low.
"Go, then, animal," said the duke; "but remember, I only
allow you half an hour."
"May I promise your custom to the successor of Father
Marteau, my lord?"
"Yes, if he does not put mushrooms in his pies; thou knowest
that mushrooms from the wood of Vincennes are fatal to my
family."
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: Ran to their shields in haste precipitate,
Or strained black-bearded throats across the dusky parapet.
For round the temple rolled the clang of arms,
And the twelve Gods leapt up in marble fear,
And the air quaked with dissonant alarums
Till huge Poseidon shook his mighty spear,
And on the frieze the prancing horses neighed,
And the low tread of hurrying feet rang from the cavalcade.
Ready for death with parted lips he stood,
And well content at such a price to see
That calm wide brow, that terrible maidenhood,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: him?'
They shook their heads, and murmured an answer in the negative, as
each man looked round and appealed to his fellow; when a noise was
heard without, and a man was heard to say that he wanted Hugh--that
he must see Hugh.
'He is but one man,' cried Hugh to those who kept the door; 'let
him come in.'
'Ay, ay!' muttered the others. 'Let him come in. Let him come
in.'
The door was accordingly unlocked and opened. A one-armed man,
with his head and face tied up with a bloody cloth, as though he
Barnaby Rudge |
