| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: snow.
"A bear," thought I, and thanked the instinct that had
impelled me to cling tenaciously to my rifle during the
moments of my awful tumble.
At the rate I was going it would be but a moment
before I should be quite abreast the thing; nor was it
long before I came to a sudden stop in soft snow, upon
which the sun was shining, not twenty paces from the
object of my most immediate apprehension.
It was standing upon its hind legs waiting for me. As
I scrambled to my feet to meet it, I dropped my gun
Pellucidar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: shudder, and the bourgeois shuddered. Fougeres had simply been
inspired by the masterpiece of Gerard Douw; he had turned the group of
the "Dropsical Woman" toward the window, instead of presenting it full
front. The condemned man was substituted for the dying woman--same
pallor, same glance, same appeal to God. Instead of the Dutch doctor,
he had painted the cold, official figure of the sheriff's clerk
attired in black; but he had added an old woman to the young one of
Gerard Douw. The cruelly simple and good-humored face of the
executioner completed and dominated the group. This plagiarism, very
cleverly disguised, was not discovered. The catalogue contained the
following:--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: and make it peaceful and strong. And we owe to them, too,
the beginning of our logic - that is, the study of words and
of reasoning; and of our metaphysics - that is, the study of
our own thoughts and souls. And last of all, they made their
language so beautiful that foreigners used to take to it
instead of their own; and at last Greek became the common
language of educated people all over the old world, from
Persia and Egypt even to Spain and Britain. And therefore it
was that the New Testament was written in Greek, that it
might be read and understood by all the nations of the Roman
empire; so that, next to the Jews, and the Bible which the
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