| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: ships.
[Sunday, 16th July]
Besides laying, boring, trenailing, wedging, and grouting
thirty-two stones, several other operations were proceeded
with on the rock at low-water, when some of the artificers
were employed at the railways, and at high-water at the
beacon-house. The seamen having prepared a quantity of
tarpaulin, or cloth laid over with successive coats of hot
tar, the joiners had just completed the covering of the roof
with it. This sort of covering was lighter and more easily
managed than sheet-lead in such a situation. As a further
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: sconces.
The mistress of the house then waylays a few artists, amusing people
or intimate friends, saying, "Do not go yet; we will have a snug
little supper." These collect in some small room. The second, the real
party, now begins; a party where, as of old, every one can hear what
is said, conversation is general, each one is bound to be witty and to
contribute to the amusement of all. Everything is made to tell, honest
laughter takes the place of the gloom which in company saddens the
prettiest faces. In short, where the rout ends pleasure begins.
The Rout, a cold display of luxury, a review of self-conceits in full
dress, is one of those English inventions which tend to /mechanize/
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: hang slily, as if they screened an ousting presence. To
discover whose presence that was--whether really Farfrae's
after all, or another's--he exerted himself to the utmost to
see her again; and at length succeeded.
At the interview, when she offered him tea, he made it a
point to launch a cautious inquiry if she knew Mr. Farfrae.
O yes, she knew him, she declared; she could not help
knowing almost everybody in Casterbridge, living in such a
gazebo over the centre and arena of the town.
"Pleasant young fellow," said Henchard.
"Yes," said Lucetta.
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
