| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: "You could squeeze in, through
that little round hole," said Goody
Tiptoes. "Yes, I could," said the
Chipmunk, "but my husband,
Chippy Hackee, bites!"
Down below there was a noise
of cracking nuts and nibbling; and
then the fat squirrel voice and the
thin squirrel voice sang--
"For the diddlum day
Day diddle durn di!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: of friendship, abused every duty of hospitality, and stole thee
from thy father's roof!"
"Do him no slander, Tressilian! He whom thou speakest of wears a
sword as sharp as thine--sharper, vain man; for the best deeds
thou hast ever done in peace or war were as unworthy to be named
with his, as thy obscure rank to match itself with the sphere he
moves in.--Leave me! Go, do mine errand to my father; and when
he next sends to me, let him choose a more welcome messenger."
"Amy," replied Tressilian calmly, "thou canst not move me by thy
reproaches. Tell me one thing, that I may bear at least one ray
of comfort to my aged friend:--this rank of his which thou dost
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: facility. Come, my lord, you shall be treated like a prince,
as you are."
"A fallen prince!" exclaimed Mazarin, piteously.
"The chances of war," said Athos, "are many, but be assured
we shall take no improper advantage of them."
"No, but we shall make use of them," said D'Artagnan.
The rest of the night was employed by these cavaliers in
traveling with the wonderful rapidity of former days.
Mazarin, still sombre and pensive, permitted himself to be
dragged along in this way; it looked a race of phantoms. At
dawn twelve leagues had been passed without drawing rein;
Twenty Years After |
