| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: class; what he must expect from Bertrade de Mont-
fort when she learned that Roger de Conde was Nor-
man of Torn.
The outlaw had scarce passed out of sight upon the
road to Derby ere the girl, who still stood in an em-
brasure of the south tower, gazing with strangely
drawn, sad face up the road which had swallowed him,
saw a body of soldiers galloping rapidly toward Tany
from the south.
The King's banner waved above their heads, and in-
tuitively Joan de Tany knew for whom they sought at
The Outlaw of Torn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was
composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied
loosely together at the elbow. As for its legs, the right was a
hoe handle, and the left an undistinguished and miscellaneous
stick from the woodpile. Its lungs, stomach, and other affairs of
that kind were nothing better than a meal bag stuffed with straw.
Thus we have made out the skeleton and entire corporosity of the
scarecrow, with the exception of its head; and this was admirably
supplied by a somewhat withered and shrivelled pumpkin, in which
Mother Rigby cut two holes for the eyes and a slit for the mouth,
leaving a bluish-colored knob in the middle to pass for a nose.
Mosses From An Old Manse |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: The Commission in Lunacy
The Middle Classes
Cousin Pons
Godeschal, Marie
A Bachelor's Establishment
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Cousin Pons
Gondreville, Malin, Comte de
The Gondreville Mystery
Domestic Peace
The Member for Arcis
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