| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: size, yet strong and well formed, and he would have been handsome
except for the expression of discontent upon his face. Yet his manner
and words were so absurd and unnatural that the prince was more amused
than angered by his new acquaintance, and presently laughed in his face.
"If all the people in this island are like you," he said, "I shall
have lots of fun with them. And you are only a boy, after all."
"I'm bigger than you!" declared the other, glaring fiercely at the prince.
"How much bigger?" asked Marvel, his eyes twinkling.
"Oh, ever so much!"
"Then fetch along that coil of rope, and follow me," said Prince Marvel.
"Fetch the rope yourself!" retorted the boy, bluntly. "I'm not your
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: be with your own.'
"Thereupon she set her head-kerchief straight, and settled herself to
tell the tale; for there is no doubt a particular attitude of
confidence and security is necessary to the telling of a narrative.
The best tales are told at a certain hour--just as we are all here at
table. No one ever told a story well standing up, or fasting.
"If I were to reproduce exactly Rosalie's diffuse eloquence, a whole
volume would scarcely contain it. Now, as the event of which she gave
me a confused account stands exactly midway between the notary's
gossip and that of Madame Lepas, as precisely as the middle term of a
rule-of-three sum stands between the first and third, I have only to
La Grande Breteche |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: affinities; Alph., on low plants, widely dispersed; on widely-ranging
plants being variable; on naturalisation; on winged seeds; on Alpine
species suddenly becoming rare; on distribution of plants with large seeds;
on vegetation of Australia; on fresh-water plants; on insular plants
Degradation of coast-rocks
Denudation, rate of; of oldest rocks
Development of ancient forms
Devonian system
Dianthus, fertility of crosses
Dirt on feet of birds
Division, physiological, of labour
On the Origin of Species |
