| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: once to lay in its military stores for the ensuing year, and
expected to obtain them at a very cheap rate."
Such sudden transitions from the depths of misery to the most
exuberant plenty are by no means rare in the history of Asia,
where the various centres of civilization are, in an economical
sense, so isolated from each other that the welfare of the
population is nearly always absolutely dependent on the
irregular: and apparently capricious bounty of nature. For the
three years following the dreadful misery above described,
harvests of unprecedented abundance were gathered in. Yet how
inadequate they were to repair the fearful damage wrought by six
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: II. The Bewilderment of Perfect Happiness
III. The Beginning of Shadow
IV. A Cab runs in English and barks in Slang
V. Things of the Night
VI. Marius becomes Practical once more to the Extent of
Giving Cosette his Address
VII. The Old Heart and the Young Heart in the Presence
of Each Other
BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING?
I. Jean Valjean
II. Marius
Les Miserables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: George, there stands a monument dedicated, in uncouth
Covenanting verse, to all who lost their lives in that
contention. There is no moorsman shot in a snow shower
beside Irongray or Co'monell; there is not one of the two
hundred who were drowned off the Orkneys; nor so much as
a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American
plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that
memorial, and, if such things interest just men among the
shades, can boast he has a monument on earth as well as
Julius Caesar or the Pharaohs. Where they may all lie, I
know not. Far-scattered bones, indeed! But if the
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