| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: rich chapel, and in which neighbourhood several Catholic families
were known to reside.
Beginning with the private houses so occupied, they broke open the
doors and windows; and while they destroyed the furniture and left
but the bare walls, made a sharp search for tools and engines of
destruction, such as hammers, pokers, axes, saws, and such like
instruments. Many of the rioters made belts of cord, of
handkerchiefs, or any material they found at hand, and wore these
weapons as openly as pioneers upon a field-day. There was not the
least disguise or concealment--indeed, on this night, very little
excitement or hurry. From the chapels, they tore down and took
Barnaby Rudge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.
VI
Rain
The rain is falling all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
VII
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: into the road, broke into a canter and vanished in the direction
of the smashed-up refinery.
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About such towns as Rheims or Arras or Soissons there is an
effect of waiting stillness like nothing else I have ever
experienced. At Arras the situation is almost incredible to the
civilian mind. The British hold the town, the Germans hold a
northern suburb; at one point near the river the trenches are
just four metres apart. This state of tension has lasted for
long months.
Unless a very big attack is contemplated, I suppose there is no
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