| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: Koyokuk country. And there were newspapers and magazines and
letters for Neil Bonner. And Jees Uck looked on in worriment, for
she knew his kindred talked with him across the world.
Without much shock, it came to him that his father was dead. There
was a sweet letter of forgiveness, dictated in his last hours.
There were official letters from the Company, graciously ordering
him to turn the post over to the assistant and permitting him to
depart at his earliest pleasure. A long, legal affair from the
lawyers informed him of interminable lists of stocks and bonds,
real estate, rents, and chattels that were his by his father's
will. And a dainty bit of stationery, sealed and monogramed,
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: conceal from myself that I have become mixed up with either
lunatics or malefactors. I may truly thank my stars that I
am so nearly and so creditably done with it.' Thus thinking,
and perhaps remembering the episode of the whistle, he turned
to the open window. The garden was still faintly clear; he
could distinguish the stairs and terraces with which the
small domain had been adorned by former owners, and the
blackened bushes and dead trees that had once afforded
shelter to the country birds; beyond these he saw the strong
retaining wall, some thirty feet in height, which enclosed
the garden to the back; and again above that, the pile of
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: distances united by a railing, more, however, for ornament than
protection, for the bars of the railing were of painted wood.
The old man, named Pingret, noted for his avarice, lived with a single
woman-servant, a country-girl who did all the work of the house. He
himself took care of his espaliers, trimmed his trees, gathered his
fruit, and sent it to Limoges for sale, together with early
vegetables, in the raising of which he excelled.
The niece of this old man, and his sole heiress, married to a
gentleman of small means living in Limoges, a Madame des Vanneaulx,
had again and again urged her uncle to hire a man to protect the
house, pointing out to him that he would thus obtain the profits of
|
