| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: arrangements for being "met"; she found them for the most part
prosaic and coarse. The only thing was that they brought into her
stuffy corner as straight a whiff of Alpine meadows and Scotch
moors as she might hope ever to inhale; there were moreover in
especial fat hot dull ladies who had out with her, to exasperation,
the terms for seaside lodgings, which struck her as huge, and the
matter of the number of beds required, which was not less
portentous: this in reference to places of which the names--
Eastbourne, Folkestone, Cromer, Scarborough, Whitby--tormented her
with something of the sound of the plash of water that haunts the
traveller in the desert. She had not been out of London for a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: handed down to him either from the military number of an
ancestor who had served in the English ranks during the
Great War, or that originally it was the number of some
famous regiment with which a forbear fought.
Now that we were reunited, we held a council to determine
what course we should pursue in the immediate future.
Snider was still for setting out to sea and returning to
Pan-America, but the better judgment of Delcarte and Taylor
ridiculed the suggestion--we should not have lived a
fortnight.
To remain in England, constantly menaced by wild beasts and
Lost Continent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: occasion for money, save to purchase snuff, his only luxury, in
which he indulged himself liberally. When he died, in the
beginning of the present century, he was found to have hoarded
about twenty pounds, a habit very consistent with his
disposition; for wealth is power, and power was what David
Ritchie desired to possess, as a compensation for his exclusion
from human society.
His sister survived till the publication of the tale to which
this brief notice forms the introduction; and the author is sorry
to learn that a sort of "local sympathy," and the curiosity then
expressed concerning the Author of WAVERLEY and the subjects of
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