| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: the long run lead to a temporary stoppage of the theatres if
electricity cannot be spared for lighting them.) The orchestra
was also variously dressed. Most of the players of brass
instruments had evidently been in regimental bands
during the war, and still retained their khaki-green tunics
with a very mixed collection of trousers and breeches.
Others were in every kind of everyday clothes. The
conductor alone wore a frock coat, and sat in his place like a
specimen from another age, isolated in fact by his smartness
alike from his ragged orchestra and from the stalls behind
him.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let
him have a cat, that his salvation depended upon it.
I was firm, however, and told him that he could not
have it, whereupon he went without a word, and sat down,
gnawing his fingers, in the corner where I had found him.
I shall see him in the morning early.
20 July.--Visited Renfield very early, before attendant went his rounds.
Found him up and humming a tune. He was spreading out his sugar,
which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning his fly
catching again, and beginning it cheerfully and with a good grace.
I looked around for his birds,and not seeing them,asked him where they were.
Dracula |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: radiating bars--vast broadening fan-shaped shadows--grew up
and stretched away to the zenith from behind the mountain.
It was a spectacle to take one's breath, for the wonder of it,
and the sublimity.
Indeed, those mighty bars of alternate light and shadow
streaming up from behind that dark and prodigious form
and occupying the half of the dull and opaque heavens,
was the most imposing and impressive marvel I had ever
looked upon. There is no simile for it, for nothing
is like it. If a child had asked me what it was,
I should have said, "Humble yourself, in this presence,
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