| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: somehow. In the Council or not. Everyone who
knows anything knows that. And here we are with
dead bodies Iying in the dark! Why, where have you
been if you haven't heard all about the trouble
between Ostrog and the Verneys? And what do you
think the troubles are about? The Sleeper? Eh?
You think the Sleeper's real and woke of his own
accord--eh? "
"I'm a dull man, older than I look, and forgetful,"
said Graham." Lots of things that have happened--
especially of late years--. If I was the Sleeper, to tell
When the Sleeper Wakes |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: clear away and make way for the feverish excitement which sometimes
brought his judgment and his imagination into perfect harmony; for it
was their habitual disagreement, no doubt, that caused his madness.
The ruling idea of that great musical drama appeared to him, no doubt,
in its noble simplicity, like a lightning flash, illuminating the
utter darkness in which he lived. To his unsealed eyes this music
revealed the immense horizons of a world in which he found himself for
the first time, though recognizing it as that he had seen in his
dreams. He fancied himself transported into the scenery of his native
land, where that beautiful Italian landscape begins at what Napoleon
so cleverly described as the /glacis/ of the Alps. Carried back by
Gambara |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: a few hours after my landing, a fugitive slave whom I had once known well
in slavery. The information received from him alarmed me. The fugitive
in question was known in Baltimore as "Allender's Jake," but in New York
he wore the more respectable name of "William Dixon." Jake, in law,
was the property of Doctor Allender, and Tolly Allender, the son
of the doctor, had once made an effort to recapture MR. DIXON,
but had failed for want of evidence to support his claim.
Jake told me the circumstances of this attempt, and how narrowly
he escaped being sent back to slavery and torture. He told me that New York
was then full of Southerners returning from the Northern watering-places;
that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were
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