| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Exactly at the hour the last clang of the bell sounded, the
powerful wheels of the steamboat began to beat the water,
and the Caucasus passed rapidly between the two towns of
which Nijni-Novgorod is composed.
Michael Strogoff and the young Livonian had taken a
passage on board the Caucasus. Their embarkation was
made without any difficulty. As is known, the podorojna,
drawn up in the name of Nicholas Korpanoff, authorized
this merchant to be accompanied on his journey to Siberia.
They appeared, therefore, to be a brother and sister travel-
ing under the protection of the imperial police. Both,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: the land of the Cyclopes, a froward and a lawless folk, who
trusting to the deathless gods plant not aught with their
hands, neither plough: but, behold, all these things spring
for them in plenty, unsown and untilled, wheat, and barley,
and vines, which bear great clusters of the juice of the
grape, and the rain of Zeus gives them increase. These have
neither gatherings for council nor oracles of law, but they
dwell in hollow caves on the crests of the high hills, and
each one utters the law to his children and his wives, and
they reck not one of another.
'Now there is a waste isle stretching without the harbour
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: by any person with whom she was in love; and nothing can ever
be done with her by anybody else. No good will ever come of
this, and I hope she will never marry him."
With this unusual burst, Kate retreated to Hope. Hope took the
news more patiently than any one, but with deep solicitude. A
worldly marriage seemed the natural result of the Ingleside
influence, but it had not occurred to anybody that it would
come so soon. It had not seemed Emilia's peculiar temptation;
and yet nobody could suppose that she looked at John Lambert
through any glamour of the affections.
Mr. John Lambert was a millionnaire, a politician, and a
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