| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: sonality to put into her enterprises and suc-
ceeded in putting it into them so completely,
that her affairs prospered better than those of
her neighbors.
There were certain days in her life, out-
wardly uneventful, which Alexandra remem-
bered as peculiarly happy; days when she was
close to the flat, fallow world about her, and
felt, as it were, in her own body the joyous
germination in the soil. There were days,
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: mountain upon loose screes, which descend steeply to a lower wall
of precipices. In the distance rise other harsh and desolate-
looking mountain masses, with shining occasional scars of old
snow. Far below is a bleak valley of stunted pine trees through
which passes the road of the Dolomites.
As I ascended the upper track two bandages men were coming down
on led mules. It was mid-August, and they were suffering from
frostbite. Across the great gap between the summits a minute
traveller with some provisions was going up by wire to some post
upon the crest. For everywhere upon the icy pinnacles are
observation posts directing the fire of the big guns on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Blacke and portendous must this humour proue,
Vnlesse good counsell may the cause remoue
Ben. My Noble Vncle doe you know the cause?
Moun. I neither know it, nor can learne of him
Ben. Haue you importun'd him by any meanes?
Moun. Both by my selfe and many other Friends,
But he his owne affections counseller,
Is to himselfe (I will not say how true)
But to himselfe so secret and so close,
So farre from sounding and discouery,
As is the bud bit with an enuious worme,
Romeo and Juliet |
