| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: School of Medicine as regularly as if he expected to make his
daily bread in the profession. In this way, when at the age of
twenty-five he began to write books, M. Taine was a really
educated man; and his books show it. The day is past when a man
could write securely, with a knowledge of the classics alone. We
doubt if a philosophical critic is perfectly educated for his
task, unless he can read, for instance, Donaldson's "New
Cratylus" on the one hand, and Rokitansky's "Pathological
Anatomy" on the other, for the sheer pleasure of the thing. At
any rate, it was an education of this sort which M. Taine, at the
outset of his literary career, had secured. By this solid
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: came to rest within the beautiful gardens of Glinda, settling upon a velvety
green lawn close by a fountain which sent sprays of flashing gems, instead
of water, high into the air, whence they fell with a soft, tinkling sound
into the carved marble basin placed to receive them.
Everything was very gorgeous in Glinda's gardens, and while our voyagers
gazed about with admiring eyes a company of soldiers silently appeared and
surrounded them. But these soldiers of the great Sorceress were entirely
different from those of Jinjur's Army of Revolt, although they were likewise
girls. For Glinda's soldiers wore neat uniforms and bore swords and spears;
and they marched with a skill and precision that proved them well trained in
the arts of war.
The Marvelous Land of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Creditor, and make every step backward.
[As he goes backwards the Bear comes in, and he
tumbles over, and runs away and leaves his bottle
of Hay behind him.]
ACT I. SCENE III. The same.
[Enter Segasto running and Amadine after him,
being pursued by a bear.]
SEGASTO.
Oh fly, Madam, fly or else we are but dead.
AMADINE.
Help, Segasto, help! help, sweet Segasto, or else
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