| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: more thought to la Peyrade than if he had nothing to do with the
question, the deplorably stupid youth did not have the most distant
idea of breaking his ban.
Luckily for this hopeless lover, a beneficent fairy was watching over
him, and the evening before the day on which the young girl was to
make her decision the following affair took place.
It was Sunday, the day on which the Thuilliers still kept up their
weekly receptions.
Madame Phellion, convinced that the housekeeping leakage, vulgarly
called "the basket dance," was the ruin of the best-regulated
households, was in the habit of going in person to her tradespeople.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: effectual for a thrust, and too long for a quick recover. So I only chased
the Selenites as far as the first carcass, and stopped there and picked up
one of the crowbars that were lying about. It felt comfortingly heavy, and
equal to smashing any number of Selenites. I threw away my spear, and
picked up a second crowbar for the other hand. I felt five times better
than I had with the spear. I shook the two threateningly at the Selenites,
who had come to a halt in a little crowd far away up the cavern, and then
turned about to look at Cavor.
He was leaping from side to side of the grating, making threatening jabs
with his broken spear. That was all right. It would keep the Selenites
down - for a time at any rate. I looked up the cavern again. What on earth
The First Men In The Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: were at a low ebb what could more cheer a woman and hearten her
than such a mark of consideration? Already Cleggett found
himself asking what would please Lady Agatha.
CHAPTER VIII
A FLAME LEAPS OUT OF THE DARK
Kuroki announced dinner; Cleggett entered the captain's mess room
of the cabin, where the cloth was laid, and a moment later lady
Agatha emerged from the stateroom and gave him her hand with a
smile.
If he had thought her beautiful before, when she wore her plain
traveling suit, he thought her radiant now, in the true sense of
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