| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: such courage and resolution in her bearing, that I gave in at once
to her wishes. "You shall," I said, "do as you like in the matter.
God forgive me if I do wrong! There are terrible things yet to learn of.
But if you have so far traveled on the road to poor Lucy's death,
you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end,
the very end, may give you a gleam of peace. Come, there is dinner.
We must keep one another strong for what is before us. We have a cruel
and dreadful task. When you have eaten you shall learn the rest,
and I shall answer any questions you ask, if there be anything which you
do not understand, though it was apparent to us who were present."
MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
Dracula |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their
Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: either its engine, nor of the force which drove it. To be sure, the
discovery of this secret would be of little value to me. To employ it
I must first be free. And after what I knew -- little as that really
was -- the Master of the World would never release me.
There remained, it is true, the chance of escape. But would an
opportunity ever present itself? If there could be none during the
voyages of the "Terror," might there possibly be, while we remained
in this retreat?
The first question to be solved was the location of this hollow. What
communication did it have with the surrounding region? Could one only
depart from it by a flying-machine? And in what part of the United
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