| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: by a population of twenty thousand souls. Protected by its
mountains, and isolated by its steppes, the khanat of Bok-
hara is a most formidable state; and Russia would need a
large force to subdue it.
The fierce and ambitious Feofar now governed this corner
of Tartary. Relying on the other khans -- principally those
of Khokhand and Koondooz, cruel and rapacious warriors,
all ready to join an enterprise so dear to Tartar instincts --
aided by the chiefs who ruled all the hordes of Central Asia,
he had placed himself at the head of the rebellion of which
Ivan Ogareff was the instigator. This traitor, impelled by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: and leave her; and a voyage isn't a marriage." He
quoted the sailor's saying lightly.
"It is not a marriage," she whispered.
"I never took a false name, and I've never yet
told a lie to a woman. What lie? Why, THE lie--.
Take me or leave me, I say: and if you take me,
then it is . . ." He hummed a snatch very low,
leaning against the wall.
Oh, ho, ho Rio!
And fare thee well,
My bonnie young girl,
To-morrow |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: man.
The letter itself was nothing to Auguste in comparison to the tender
reproaches of his grandmother. To lack respect to a woman! to spy upon
her actions without a right to do so! Ought a man ever to spy upon a
woman whom he loved?--in short, she poured out a torrent of those
excellent reasons which prove nothing; and they put the young baron,
for the first time in his life, into one of those great human furies
in which are born, and from which issue the most vital actions of a
man's life.
"Since it is war to the knife," he said in conclusion, "I shall kill
my enemy by any means that I can lay hold of."
Ferragus |
