| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: That was over. I should never have a voice in public affairs again.
The inexorable unwritten law which forbids overt scandal sentenced
me. We were going out to a new life, a life that appeared in that
moment to be a mere shrivelled remnant of me, a mere residuum of
sheltering and feeding and seeing amidst alien scenery and the sound
of unfamiliar tongues. We were going to live cheaply in a foreign
place, so cut off that I meet now the merest stray tourist, the
commonest tweed-clad stranger with a mixture of shyness and hunger. . . .
And suddenly all the schemes I was leaving appeared fine and
adventurous and hopeful as they had never done before. How great
was this purpose I had relinquished, this bold and subtle remaking
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: still loves her kind. She married a year or so ago a boy half
her age--a wretch of a poet, a wretched poet, and given to drugs,
a thing with lank fair hair always getting into his blue eyes,
and limp legs. She did it, she said, because he needed
nursing....
But enough of this disaster of my marriage and of my early love
affairs; I have told all that is needed for my picture to explain
how I came to take up aeroplane experiments and engineering
science; let me get back to my essential story, to Tono-Bungay
and my uncle's promotions and to the vision of the world these
things have given me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "I am much obliged to Monsieur for the crown he had given me, and
I promise him to follow his instructions exactly; but it is not
the less true that letters which come in this way into shut-up
houses--"
"Fall from heaven, my friend, fall from heaven."
"Then Monsieur is satisfied?" asked Planchet.
"My dear Planchet, I an the happiest of men!"
"And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?"
"Yes, go."
"May the blessings of heaven fall upon Monsieur! But it is not
the less true that that letter--"
The Three Musketeers |
