| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: Jean said, "I can't kiss you good night, father: I have a cold,
and you could catch it." I bent and kissed her hand. She was
moved--I saw it in her eyes--and she impulsively kissed my hand
in return. Then with the usual gay "Sleep well, dear!" from
both, we parted.
At half past seven this morning I woke, and heard voices
outside my door. I said to myself, "Jean is starting on her
usual horseback flight to the station for the mail." Then Katy
[1] entered, stood quaking and gasping at my bedside a moment,
then found her tongue:
"MISS JEAN IS DEAD!"
What is Man? |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.
If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times
faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get
through a second, the impression it creates will of course be
only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it
were not travelling in time. That's plain enough.' He passed
his hand through the space in which the machine had been. `You
see?' he said, laughing.
We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then
the Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all.
`It sounds plausible enough to-night,' said the Medical Man;
The Time Machine |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: friends now--that thou should know, so that thou may
rest in peace until thou be better."
He groped for her hand, and, finding it, closed his
eyes with a faint sigh.
They bore him to a cot in an apartment next the
Queen's, and all that night the mother and the prom-
ised wife of the Outlaw of Torn sat bathing his fevered
forehead. The King's chirurgeon was there also, while
the King and De Montfort paced the corridor without.
And it is ever thus; whether in hovel or palace; in
the days of Moses, or in the days that be ours; the
The Outlaw of Torn |
