| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: American; but you will admit that the evidence is all against
you. You were found in the very building where Drontoff
was known to stay while in Burgova. The young woman
whose mother keeps the place directed our officer to your
room, and you tried to escape, which I do not think that
an innocent American would have done.
"However, as I have said, I will go to almost any length
rather than chance a mistake in the case of one who from
his appearance might pass more readily for an American
than a Serbian. I have sent for Prince Peter of Blentz. If
you can satisfactorily explain to him how you chance to be
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: all that you need, all that you know how to use. But I like to see real
men. Let them be as disagreeable as they please, they are more interesting
to me than flowers, or trees, or stars, or any other thing under the sun.
Sometimes," she added, walking on, and shaking the dust daintily from her
skirts, "when I am not too busy trying to find a new way of doing my hair
that will show my little neck to better advantage, or over other work of
that kind, sometimes it amuses me intensely to trace out the resemblance
between one man and another: to see how Tant Sannie and I, you and
Bonaparte, St. Simon on his pillow, and the emperor dining off larks'
tongues, are one and the same compound, merely mixed in different
proportions.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: guests assembled to witness the wedding ceremony. All bowed down before
Akinosuke as he took his place, facing the King's daughter, on the
kneeling-cushion prepared for him. As a maiden of heaven the bride appeared
to be; and her robes were beautiful as a summer sky. And the marriage was
performed amid great rejoicing.
Afterwards the pair were conducted to a suite of apartments that had been
prepared for them in another portion of the palace; and there they received
the congratulations of many noble persons, and wedding gifts beyond
counting.
Some days later Akinosuke was again summoned to the throne-room. On this
occasion he was received even more graciously than before; and the King
Kwaidan |
