| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: together, that I could hardly stand upon my legs, or speak a
word. It was at least three days before I recovered my strength;
and that I might have no rest at home, all the neighbouring
gentlemen from a hundred miles round, hearing of my fame, came to
see me at my master's own house. There could not be fewer than
thirty persons with their wives and children (for the country is
very populous;) and my master demanded the rate of a full room
whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single
family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of
the week (except Wednesday, which is their Sabbath,) although I
were not carried to the town.
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: Smokovnikov's teacher of religion.
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ASKING Father Missael on his arrival to take a
seat, the bishop told him what had happened in
his diocese.
"It all comes from weakness of spirit and from
ignorance. You are a learned man, and I rely on
you. Go to the village, call the parishioners to-
gether, and convince them of their error."
"If your Grace bids me go, and you give me
your blessing, I will do my best," said Father
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: 2nd of October we made the shore, of England; and at Falmouth
I left the Beagle, having lived on board the good little
vessel nearly five years.
Our Voyage having come to an end, I will take a short
retrospect of the advantages and disadvantages, the pains
and pleasures, of our circumnavigation of the world. If a
person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage,
my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste
for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be
advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various
countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures
The Voyage of the Beagle |
