| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Tell the Earl what we have seen!" said Walter; "why what have
we seen but a boat, and men with scarlet jerkins, and halberds in
their hands? Let us do his errand, and tell him what the Queen
says in reply."
So saying, he caused the boat to be pulled towards a landing-
place at some distance from the principal one, which it would
not, at that moment, have been thought respectful to approach,
and jumped on shore, followed, though with reluctance, by his
cautious and timid companions. As they approached the gate of
the palace, one of the sergeant porters told them they could not
at present enter, as her Majesty was in the act of coming forth.
Kenilworth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: country. It is hundreds of years old. It hasn't an idea. The
oldest of old bottles and this new wine, the most explosive wine.
Something will overtake them.'
Section 4
There was a certain truth in Holsten's assertion that the law was
'hundreds of years old.' It was, in relation to current thought
and widely accepted ideas, an archaic thing. While almost all the
material and methods of life had been changing rapidly and were
now changing still more rapidly, the law-courts and the
legislatures of the world were struggling desperately to meet
modern demands with devices and procedures, conceptions of rights
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madame Firmiani by Honore de Balzac: frailties, and like none but proteges. Aristocrats by inclination,
they make themselves democrats out of spite, preferring to consort
with inferiors as equals.
"Oh, Madame Firmiani, my dear fellow! she is one of those adorable
women who serve as Nature's excuse for all the ugly ones she creates.
Madame Firmiani is enchanting, and so kind! I wish I were in power and
possessed millions that I might--" (here a whisper). "Shall I present
you?" The speaker is a youth of the Student species, known for his
boldness among men and his timidity in a boudoir.
"Madame Firmiani?" cries another, twirling his cane. "I'll tell you
what I think of her; she is a woman between thirty and thirty-five;
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