| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: chaise, or into it. -
I preferred the latter, and in half an hour we got to the post-
house at Nampont.
NAMPONT. THE DEAD ASS.
- AND this, said he, putting the remains of a crust into his wallet
- and this should have been thy portion, said he, hadst thou been
alive to have shared it with me. - I thought, by the accent, it had
been an apostrophe to his child; but 'twas to his ass, and to the
very ass we had seen dead in the road, which had occasioned La
Fleur's misadventure. The man seemed to lament it much; and it
instantly brought into my mind Sancho's lamentation for his; but he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: it found itself in possession of a considerable capital, of which
the following is a statement:
United States subscriptions, . . $4,000,000
Foreign subscriptions . . . $1,446,675
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Total, . . . . $5,446,675
Such was the sum which the public poured into the treasury of
the Gun Club.
Let no one be surprised at the vastness of the amount. The work
of casting, boring, masonry, the transport of workmen, their
establishment in an almost uninhabited country, the construction
From the Earth to the Moon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: of us are left! I do so enjoy the quiet--don't you, Lily? I wish
the men would always stop away--it's really much nicer without
them. Oh, you don't count, George: one doesn't have to talk to
one's husband. But I thought Mr. Gryce was to stay for the rest
of the week?" she added enquiringly. "Didn't he intend to, Judy?
He's such a nice boy--I wonder what drove him away? He is rather
shy, and I'm afraid we may have shocked him: he has been brought
up in such an old-fashioned way. Do you know, Lily, he told me he
had never seen a girl play cards for money till he saw you doing
it the other night? And he lives on the interest of his income,
and always has a lot left over to invest!"
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