| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: over the house, mewing for Tom
Kitten. She looked in the pantry under
the staircase, and she searched the
best spare bedroom that was all
covered up with dust sheets. She went
right upstairs and looked into the
attics, but she could not find him
anywhere.
It was an old, old house, full of
cupboards and passages. Some of the
walls were four feet thick, and there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: When on a level with the last arches they returned straight towards
the aqueduct; the place was unprotected: they crawled to the base of
the pillars.
The sentries on the platform were walking quietly up and down.
Towering flames appeared; clarions rang; and the soldiers on vedette,
believing that there was an assault, rushed away in the direction of
Carthage.
One man had remained. He showed black against the background of the
sky. The moon was shining behind him, and his shadow, which was of
extravagant size, looked in the distance like an obelisk proceeding
across the plain.
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: much that I wanted, saying the thing to think of was a light pack for the
pony.
"I'll hurry to the hotel and get my things," I said, "and meet you here.
I'll not be a moment."
But Buell said it would be better for him to go with me, though he did not
explain. He kept with me, still he remained in the office while I went
up-stairs. Somehow this suited me, for I did not want him to see the broken
window. I took a few things from my grip and rolled them in a bundle. Then
I took a little leather case of odds and ends I had always carried when
camping and slipped it into my pocket. Hurrying down-stairs I left my grip
with the porter, wrote and mailed a postal card to my father, and followed
The Young Forester |
