| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: Bagman tittups past in his spring gig, and is positively not aware
of the flowers along the lane, or the scenery of the weather
overhead.
BACK TO THE WORLD
OF the next two days' sail little remains in my mind, and nothing
whatever in my note-book. The river streamed on steadily through
pleasant river-side landscapes. Washerwomen in blue dresses,
fishers in blue blouses, diversified the green banks; and the
relation of the two colours was like that of the flower and the
leaf in the forget-me-not. A symphony in forget-me-not; I think
Theophile Gautier might thus have characterised that two days'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: potter’s field. In Bolton the prevailing spirit of Puritanism
had outlawed the sport of boxing -- with the usual result. Surreptitious
and ill-conducted bouts among the mill-workers were common, and
occasionally professional talent of low grade was imported. This
late winter night there had been such a match; evidently with
disastrous results, since two timorous Poles had come to us with
incoherently whispered entreaties to attend to a very secret and
desperate case. We followed them to an abandoned barn, where the
remnants of a crowd of frightened foreigners were watching a silent
black form on the floor.
The match had been between Kid O’Brien
Herbert West: Reanimator |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: women and children? To this it was answered that these twenty
farmers would, by the consequence of their own settlements, provide
for and employ such a proportion of others of their own people
that, by thus providing for twenty families in a place, the whole
number of Palatinates would have been provided for, had they been
twenty thousand more in number than they were, and that without
being any burden upon or injury to the people of England; on the
contrary, they would have been an advantage and an addition of
wealth and strength to the nation, and to the country in particular
where they should be thus seated. For example:-
As soon as the land was marked out, the farmers put in possession
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