| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: archives; and that this was his reason for handing the affair to
Leary. It is not necessary to suppose so. It is plain he thought
little of the business; thought indeed nothing of it; except in so
far as armed men had entered the neutral territory from Mulinuu;
and it was on this ground alone, and the implied breach of Becker's
engagement at the conference, that he invited Leary's attention to
the tale. The impish ingenuity of the commander perceived in it
huge possibilities of mischief. He took up the Scanlon outrage,
the atrocity of the threatened pigs; and with that poor instrument
- I am sure, to his own wonder - drove Tamasese out of Mulinuu. It
was "an intrigue," Becker complains. To be sure it was; but who
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: perfectly well aware that I have had for a month in my
service the very best coachman in Paris. But, perhaps, you
have disposed of the coachman as well as the horses?"
"My dear love, pray do not say any more about them, and I
promise you another pair exactly like them in appearance,
only more quiet and steady." The baroness shrugged her
shoulders with an air of ineffable contempt, while her
husband, affecting not to observe this unconjugal gesture,
turned towards Monte Cristo and said, -- "Upon my word,
count, I am quite sorry not to have met you sooner. You are
setting up an establishment, of course?"
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: found he was getting much bigger than the average man and rapidly
becoming a giant. So he sought for a way to arrest the action of the
magical draft; but before he could find it he had grown to enormous
proportions, and was bigger than the biggest giant. There was nothing
in the book of magic to make one grow smaller, so he was obliged to
remain as he was--the largest man in the Enchanted Island.
All this had happened in a single night. The morning after his
master's murder the page announced himself lord of the castle; and,
seeing his enormous size, none dared deny his right to rule. On
account of his bushy hair, which was fiery red in color, and the bushy
red beard that covered his face when he became older, people came to
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
