| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: had to forego my income for a long time. And then, monsieur, began the
destruction of some illusions I had allowed myself as to Madame
d'Espard's character. When I proposed to her that we should leave
Paris and go into the country, where we could live respected on half
of her income, and so more rapidly complete a restitution of which I
spoke to her without going into the more serious details, Madame
d'Espard treated me as a madman. I then understood my wife's real
character. She would have approved of my grandfather's conduct without
a scruple, and have laughed at the Huguenots. Terrified by her
coldness, and her little affection for her children, whom she
abandoned to me without regret, I determined to leave her the command
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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: and connected with the Rows by eight graceful bridges, beneath
which hummed the interlacing streams of motor traffic, pulsating
as the current alternated between east and west and north and
south. Above rose great frontages of intricate rather than
beautiful reinforced porcelain, studded with lights, barred by
bold illuminated advertisements, and glowing with reflections.
There were the two historical music halls of this place, the
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, in which the municipal players
revolved perpetually through the cycle of Shakespeare's plays,
and four other great houses of refreshment and entertainment
whose pinnacles streamed up into the blue obscurity of the night.
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: and English.
The legend was the more easily believed because it embraced and was
founded upon so much truth. Germans lay dead, the German wounded
groaned in their cots; and the cartridges by which they fell had
been sold by an American and brought into the country in a British
bottom. Had the transaction been entirely mercenary, it would
already have been hard to swallow; but it was notoriously not so.
British and Americans were notoriously the partisans of Mataafa.
They rejoiced in the result of Fangalii, and so far from seeking to
conceal their rejoicing, paraded and displayed it. Calumny ran
high. Before the dead were buried, while the wounded yet lay in
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