| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: prejudiced companion. The moon, which had arisen during their
conversation, was, in the phrase of that country, wading or
struggling with clouds, and shed only a doubtful and occasional
light. By one of her beams, which streamed upon the great
granite column to which they now approached, they discovered a
form, apparently human, but of a size much less than ordinary,
which moved slowly among the large grey stones, not like a person
intending to journey onward, but with the slow, irregular,
flitting movement of a being who hovers around some spot of
melancholy recollection, uttering also, from time to time, a sort
of indistinct muttering sound. This so much resembled his idea
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: "And I can visit the celebrated islands where the Boussole
and the Astrolabe struck?"
"If you like, Professor."
"When shall we be there?"
"We are there now."
Followed by Captain Nemo, I went up on to the platform,
and greedily scanned the horizon.
To the N.E. two volcanic islands emerged of unequal size,
surrounded by a coral reef that measured forty miles in circumference.
We were close to Vanikoro, really the one to which Dumont d'Urville
gave the name of Isle de la Recherche, and exactly facing the little
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: I still am beautiful, and yet what child
Would think of me as some high, heaven-sent thing,
An angel, clad in gold and miniver?
The world would run from me, and yet am I
No different from the queen they used to love.
If water, flowing silver over stones,
Is forded, and beneath the horses' feet
Grows turbid suddenly, it clears again,
And men will drink it with no thought of harm.
Yet I am branded for a single fault.
I was the flower amid a toiling world,
|
