| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: resolved to trust to their being intelligent enough to understand
this without further comment.
"The facts of this case are the following," began the president,
and repeated all that had already been said several times by the
advocates, the public prosecutor and the witnesses.
The president spoke, and the members on each side of him listened
with deeply-attentive expressions, but looked from time to time
at the clock, for they considered the speech too long though very
good--i.e., such as it ought to be. The public prosecutor, the
lawyers, and, in fact, everyone in the court, shared the same
impression. The president finished the summing up. Then he found
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: who, as he died, called to him that he too should know the feel
of it in his heart, as indeed he did."
I think that Cetewayo was about to assent to this suggestion,
since he who desired peace believed it impossible that Zikali
should suddenly cause this identical spear to fall from heaven.
But Umnyamana, the Prime Induna, interposed hurriedly--
"It is not enough, O King. Zikali may have stolen the spear, for
he was living and at the kraal Duguza at that time. Also he may
have put about the prophecy whereof Sigananda speaks, or at least
so men would say. Let him give us a greater sign than this that
all may be content, so that whether we make war or peace it may
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: resumed his earnest argument.
I tell you it was a memorable year! One does not meet such an
Englishman twice in a lifetime. Was he in the mystic ordering of
common events the ambassador of my future, sent out to turn the
scale at a critical moment on the top of an Alpine pass, with the
peaks of the Bernese Oberland for mute and solemn witnesses? His
glance, his smile, the unextinguishable and comic ardour of his
striving-forward appearance, helped me to pull myself together.
It must be stated that on that day and in the exhilarating
atmosphere of that elevated spot I had been feeling utterly
crushed. It was the year in which I had first spoken aloud of my
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