| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: strength together, through fallen earth and broken debris it oozed its way
silently on; and it crept out in a deep valley; the mountains closed it
around. And the streamlet laughed to itself, 'Ha, ha! I shall make a
great lake here; a sea!' And it oozed, and it oozed, and it filled half
the plain. But no lake came--only a great marsh--because there was no way
outwards, and the water rotted. The grass died out along its edges; and
the trees dropped their leaves and rotted in the water; and the wood dove
who had built her nest there flew up to the mountains, because her young
ones died. And the toads sat on the stones and dropped their spittle in
the water; and the reeds were yellow that grew along the edge. And at
night, a heavy, white fog gathered over the water, so that the stars could
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: which it enclosed, opinions were divided regarding their fate.
"They are dead!" said one.
"They are alive!" said another; "the crater is deep, and the
shock was deadened."
"But they must have wanted air," continued a third speaker;
"they must have died of suffocation."
"Burned!" replied a fourth; "the projectile was nothing but an
incandescent mass as it crossed the atmosphere."
"What does it matter!" they exclaimed unanimously; "living or
dead, we must pull them out!"
But Captain Blomsberry had assembled his officers, and "with
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: body in comparison to him.
FIRST SMITH.
Well, masters, come, shall we to our hammers?
HODGE.
Aye, content; first let's take our morning's draught, and
then to work roundly.
SECOND SMITH.
Aye, agreed; go in, Hodge.
[Exit omnes.]
ACT I. SCENE II. The same.
[Enter young Cromwell.]
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