| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: they came back to the shore, carrying the utensils and guns, a store of
vegetables, of seeds, some game, and two couple of pigs.
All was embarked, and the "Bonadventure" was ready to weigh anchor and
sail with the morning tide.
The prisoner had been placed in the fore-cabin, where he remained quiet,
silent, apparently deaf and dumb.
Pencroft offered him something to eat, but he pushed away the cooked meat
that was presented to him and which doubtless did not suit him. But on the
sailor showing him one of the ducks which Herbert had killed, he pounced on
it like a wild beast, and devoured it greedily.
"You think that he will recover his senses?" asked Pencroft. "It is not
The Mysterious Island |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: difficult to class. There wit reigns; for all can be said, and all is
said. Carabine, a rival of the no less celebrated Malaga, had finally
inherited the salon of Florine, now Madame Raoul Nathan, and of Madame
Schontz, now wife of Chief-Justice du Ronceret.
As he entered, Gazonal made one remark only, but that remark was both
legitimate and legitimist: "It is finer than the Tuileries!" The
satins, velvets, brocades, the gold, the objects of art that swarmed
there, so filled the eyes of the wary provincial that at first he did
not see Madame Jenny Cadine, in a toilet intended to inspire respect,
who, concealed behind Carabine, watched his entrance observingly,
while conversing with others.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: the address.
"You are M. Duval?" he replied.
"Yes.
"Ah! I remember. You often came to see Mme. Duvernoy."
When I was in the street I broke the seal of the letter. If a
thunder-bolt had fallen at my feet I should have been less
startled than I was by what I read.
"By the time you read this letter, Armand, I shall be the
mistress of another man. All is over between us.
"Go back to your father, my friend, and to your sister, and
there, by the side of a pure young girl, ignorant of all our
Camille |
