| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: to Manicamp tales that made him ready to die with laughing,
which the latter, out of idleness, took ready-made to M. de
Guiche, who carried them to Monsieur.
Such, in two words, was the woof of petty interests and
petty conspiracies which united Blois with Orleans and
Orleans with Paris; and which was about to bring into the
last named city, where she was to produce so great a
revolution, the poor little La Valliere, who was far from
suspecting, as she returned joyfully, leaning on the arm of
her mother, for what a strange future she was reserved. As
to the good man, Malicorne -- we speak of the syndic of
Ten Years Later |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: entrenched with their forces, sixty thousand strong.
Before sunrise on a May morning in the year 1264,
the barons' army set out from its camp at Fletching,
nine miles from Lewes, and, marching through dense
forests, reached a point two miles from the city, un-
observed.
From here they ascended the great ridge of the hills
up the valley Combe, the projecting shoulder of the
Downs covering their march from the town. The King's
party, however, had no suspicion that an attack was
imminent, and, in direct contrast to the methods of
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: called, he walked slowly down the line scanning the faces of all, till
he came to where Galazi stood leaning on the Watcher.
"Here is a great fellow who bears a great club," said Umslopogaas.
"How are you named, fellow?"
"I am named Wolf," answered Galazi.
"Say, now, Wolf, are you willing to stand back to back with me in this
fray of two against ten? If victory is ours, you shall be next to me
amongst this people."
"Better I love the wild woods and the mountain's breast than the
kraals of men and the kiss of wives, Axebearer," answered Galazi.
"Yet, because you have shown yourself a warrior of might, and to taste
Nada the Lily |
