| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: decline; she just sat admirably still, satisfied for the time with
the surprise and bewilderment of the impression she made on him.
His agitation was even greater on the whole than she had at first
allowed for. "I say, you know, you mustn't think of leaving!" he
at last broke out.
"Of leaving Cocker's, you mean?"
"Yes, you must stay on there, whatever happens, and help a fellow."
She was silent a little, partly because it was so strange and
exquisite to feel him watch her as if it really mattered to him and
he were almost in suspense. "Then you HAVE quite recognised what
I've tried to do?" she asked.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: their existence.
If the climate, since the Glacial period, has ever been in any degree
warmer than at present (as some geologists in the United States believe to
have been the case, chiefly from the distribution of the fossil Gnathodon),
then the arctic and temperate productions will at a very late period have
marched a little further north, and subsequently have retreated to their
present homes; but I have met with no satisfactory evidence with respect to
this intercalated slightly warmer period, since the Glacial period.
The arctic forms, during their long southern migration and re-migration
northward, will have been exposed to nearly the same climate, and, as is
especially to be noticed, they will have kept in a body together;
On the Origin of Species |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,
Of these supposed crimes to give me leave
By circumstance but to acquit myself.
ANNE. Vouchsafe, diffus'd infection of a man,
Of these known evils but to give me leave
By circumstance to accuse thy cursed self.
GLOUCESTER. Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have
Some patient leisure to excuse myself.
ANNE. Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make
No excuse current but to hang thyself.
GLOUCESTER. By such despair I should accuse myself.
Richard III |
