| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: queen regent, began to be tumultuous. Reports were whispered
about, like certain sounds which announce, as they whistle
from wave to wave, the coming storm -- and when they pass
athwart a multitude, presage an emeute.
D'Artagnan turned toward the musketeers and made a sign
imperceptible to the crowd, but very easily understood by
that chosen regiment, the flower of the army.
The ranks closed firmly in and a kind of majestic tremor ran
from man to man.
At the Barriere des Sergents the procession was obliged to
stop. Comminges left the head of the escort and went to the
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: of Ceylon disappeared under the horizon, and the Nautilus,
at a speed of twenty miles an hour, slid into the labyrinth
of canals which separate the Maldives from the Laccadives.
It coasted even the Island of Kiltan, a land originally coraline,
discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one of the nineteen
principal islands of the Laccadive Archipelago, situated between
10@ and 14@ 30' N. lat., and 69@ 50' 72" E. long.
We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point
in the Japanese Seas.
The next day (30th January), when the Nautilus went
to the surface of the ocean there was no land in sight.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and his perfect physique. What would have been
her emotions had she guessed what thoughts were his!
It was she who broke the silence.
"Can you find the way to the long-house where my father is?"
she asked.
Bulan, startled at the question, looked up from his reverie.
The thing must be faced, then, sooner than he thought.
How was he to tell her of his intention? It occurred
to him to sound her first--possibly she would make no
objection to the plan.
"You are anxious to return?" he asked.
The Monster Men |
