| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: word. He did not say it. Fedor retired with his heart
broken. In that interview his last hope was crushed.
During the two following days, the 3rd and 4th of Octo-
ber, the Grand Duke often spoke to the pretended Michael
Strogoff, and made him repeat all that he had heard in the
Imperial Cabinet of the New Palace. Ogareff, prepared for
all these questions, replied without the least hesitation. He
intentionally did not conceal that the Czar's government had
been utterly surprised by the invasion, that the insurrection
had been prepared in the greatest possible secrecy, that the
Tartars were already masters of the line of the Obi when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: closing the gate.
Of a sudden there was a sad, low moaning through the
surrounding trees; dense, black clouds obscured the
radiant moon; and then with hideous thunder and vivid
flashes of lightning the tempest broke in all its fury
of lashing wind and hurtling deluge. It was the first
great storm of the breaking up of the monsoon, and
under the cover of its darkness Sing Lee scurried
through the monster filled campong to the bungalow.
Within he found the young man bathing Professor Maxon's
head as he had directed him to do.
The Monster Men |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: title-deeds of Animal Farm they would ask no questions. Moreover, terrible
stories were leaking out from Pinchfield about the cruelties that
Frederick practised upon his animals. He had flogged an old horse to
death, he starved his cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the
furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with
splinters of razor-blade tied to their spurs. The animals' blood boiled
with rage when they heard of these things beingdone to their comrades,
and sometimes they clamoured to be allowed to go out in a body and attack
Pinchfield Farm, drive out the humans, and set the animals free. But
Squealer counselled them to avoid rash actions and trust in Comrade
Napoleon's strategy.
Animal Farm |
