| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: Pressure--money matters--want--my people--trouble. You understood
the whole sordid situation. I could not help it. It was not my
will. I was sacrificed, or I sacrificed, have it as you wish.
But, my God! Dave, I gave you up! You never did ME justice.
Think what I have gone through!"
"It was not your will? Pressure? Under high heaven there was no
thing to will you to this man's bed or that."
"But I cared for you all the time," she pleaded.
"I was unused to your way of measuring love. I am still unused.
I do not understand."
"But now! now!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: none of the houses had suffered very greatly here. The Heat-
Ray had shaved the chimney tops and passed. Yet, save our-
selves, there did not seem to be a living soul on Maybury
Hill. The majority of the inhabitants had escaped, I suppose,
by way of the Old Woking road--the road I had taken when
I drove to Leatherhead--or they had hidden.
We went down the lane, by the body of the man in black,
sodden now from the overnight hail, and broke into the
woods at the foot of the hill. We pushed through these
towards the railway without meeting a soul. The woods
across the line were but the scarred and blackened ruins of
War of the Worlds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: importance and of almost universal prevalence, and yet leave us in no doubt
where it should be ranked. Hence, also, it has been found, that a
classification founded on any single character, however important that may
be, has always failed; for no part of the organisation is universally
constant. The importance of an aggregate of characters, even when none are
important, alone explains, I think, that saying of Linnaeus, that the
characters do not give the genus, but the genus gives the characters; for
this saying seems founded on an appreciation of many trifling points of
resemblance, too slight to be defined. Certain plants, belonging to the
Malpighiaceae, bear perfect and degraded flowers; in the latter, as A. de
Jussieu has remarked, 'the greater number of the characters proper to the
On the Origin of Species |
