| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "Why not?" said Clementine, questioning him by a look that was half-
anger.
"Must I tell you why?" he said, coloring; "must I confide to you what
I hide from Adam, who thinks my only love is Poland."
"Ah! a secret in our noble captain?"
"A disgraceful one--which you will perhaps understand, and pity."
"You, disgraced?"
"Yes, I, Comte Paz; I am madly in love with a girl who travels all
over France with the Bouthor family,--people who have the rival circus
to Franconi; but they play only at fairs. I have made the director at
the Cirque-Olympique engage her."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: prepared for misbelievers shameful woe! But those who believe in God
and His apostles, and who do not make a distinction between any one of
them,- to these we will give their hire, for God is forgiving and
merciful!
The people of the Book will ask thee to bring down for them a book
from heaven; but they asked Moses a greater thing than that, for
they said, 'Show us God openly;' but the thunderbolt caught them in
their injustice. Then they took the calf, after what had come to
them of manifest signs; but we pardoned that, and gave Moses obvious
authority. And we held over them the mountain at their compact, and
said to them, 'Enter ye the door adoring;' and we said to them,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: like the distant concussion of a gun. Another nearer, and
then another. And then the Martian beside us raised his tube
on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that
made the ground heave. The one towards Staines answered
him. There was no flash, no smoke, simply that loaded
detonation.
I was so excited by these heavy minute-guns following one
another that I so far forgot my personal safety and my
scalded hands as to clamber up into the hedge and stare
towards Sunbury. As I did so a second report followed, and
a big projectile hurtled overhead towards Hounslow. I ex-
War of the Worlds |
