| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Cossacks and the rest, did not put in an appearance at the
great market. Doubtless, a sudden order to move having
been foreseen, they were restricted to their barracks.
Moreover, while no soldiers were to be seen, it was not
so with their officers. Since the evening before, aides-de-
camp, leaving the governor's palace, galloped in every direc-
tion. An unusual movement was going forward which a
serious state of affairs could alone account for. There
were innumerable couriers on the roads both to Wladimir
and to the Ural Mountains. The exchange of telegraphic
dispatches with Moscow was incessant.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: gently on the ground, and away he ran. I treated the rest in the
same manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I
observed both the soldiers and people were highly delighted at
this mark of my clemency, which was represented very much to my
advantage at court.
Towards night I got with some difficulty into my house, where I
lay on the ground, and continued to do so about a fortnight;
during which time, the emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared
for me. Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in
carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of
their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go--
It answered me with silence,
Silence below.
Oh, I could give him weeping,
Or I could give him song--
RIVERS TO THE SEA
But how can I give silence
My whole life long?
VI
Ruins of Paestum
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