| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is founded on fact.
. . . At the close of a winter day,
Their anchors down, by London town, the Three Great Captains lay;
And one was Admiral of the North from Solway Firth to Skye,
And one was Lord of the Wessex coast and all the lands thereby,
And one was Master of the Thames from Limehouse to Blackwall,
And he was Captain of the Fleet -- the bravest of them all.
Their good guns guarded their great gray sides
that were thirty foot in the sheer,
Verses 1889-1896 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "It is paid," said Robin, "as this good knight can testify,
who saw my Lady's messenger depart but now."
Sir William looked round to the stranger knight, and instantly fell
on his knee, saying, "God save King Richard."
The foresters, friar and all, dropped on their knees together,
and repeated in chorus: "God save King Richard."
"Rise, rise," said Richard, smiling: "Robin is king here, as his lady
hath shown. I have heard much of thee, Robin, both of thy present and thy
former state. And this, thy fair forest-queen, is, if tales say true,
the lady Matilda Fitzwater."
Marian signed acknowledgment.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: her a passage! At any cost, he must see her beforehand,
and enable her to avoid such a repulse.
But all his endeavors were in vain, and he at length al-
most despaired of finding her again. It was eleven o'clock,
and Michael thought of presenting his podorojna at the
office of the head of police. The proclamation evidently
did not concern him, since the emergency had been fore-
seen for him, but he wished to make sure that nothing would
hinder his departure from the town.
Michael then returned to the other side of the Volga, to
the quarter in which was the office of the head of police.
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