| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: with visible irritation. As though to check his speech he turned his
head aside. His hand touched a regulator of some sort, and the
machine rapidly increased its speed.
Anger almost mastered me. I wanted to cry out "So be it! Keep your
silence! I know who you are, just as I know your machine, recognized
at Madison, at Boston, at Lake Kirdall. Yes; it is you, who have
rushed so recklessly over our roads, our seas and our lakes! Your
boat is the 'Terror' and you her commander, wrote that letter to the
government. It is you who fancy you can fight the entire world. You,
who call yourself the Master of the World!"
And how could he have denied it! I saw at that moment the famous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: relief by the light of the wax candles, she turned her back upon him
as she resumed her place, and went on talking to her partner in a way
to let the marquis hear the sweetest and most caressing tones of her
voice.
"The First Consul sends dangerous ambassadors," her partner was
saying.
"Monsieur," she replied, "you all said that at La Vivetiere."
"You have the memory of a king," replied he, disconcerted at his own
awkwardness.
"To forgive injuries one must needs remember them," she said quickly,
relieving his embarrassment with a smile.
The Chouans |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: not needed."
"Oh, why so, Macumazahn? My daughter did not get on with the Princess
Nandie--we could all see that--for they would scarcely speak to each
other. And if Saduko is fond of her--well, after all, there are other
beautiful women in Zululand. I know one or two of them myself whom I
will mention to Saduko--or rather to Nandie. Really, as things were, I
am not sure but that he is well rid of her."
"But what do you think of the matter as her father?" I asked, for I
wanted to see to what length his accommodating morality would stretch.
"As her father--well, of course, Macumazahn, as her father I am sorry,
because it will mean talk, will it not, as the Masapo business did?
Child of Storm |
